US10298823B2
A camera assembly for a vehicle vision system includes a housing having a first housing portion and a second housing portion, with a circuit element disposed within the first housing portion. The second housing portion has a connector portion configured for connecting to a vehicle wiring when the camera assembly is installed at a vehicle. A coaxial connector is disposed at the connector portion of the second housing portion. The coaxial connector includes a plurality of electrical coaxial connector elements. Each of the electrical coaxial connector elements has (i) a first end that is configured for electrically connecting to circuitry of the circuit element within the first housing portion and (ii) a second end that is configured for electrically connecting to the vehicle wiring.
US10298821B2
A camera module system for a vehicle, an image pickup device, and a method. The camera module system including a lens holder, a case, a first engaging part, and a second engaging part. The lens holder is configured to mount a lens, the lens holder having a first surface that is perpendicular to an optical axis of the lens. The case is configured to mount the lens holder, the case having a second surface that faces the first surface. The first engaging part is on the first surface, the first engaging part including a plurality of first projections. The second engaging part is on the second surface, the second engaging part including a plurality of second projections. The first engaging part is engaged with the second engaging part when the plurality of first projections is engaged with the plurality of second projections.
US10298814B2
A portable vehicle alignment system is provided having two base tower assemblies, each having a pedestal, a columnar tower removably attachable to the top of the pedestal, and a camera pod movable along a length of the tower; and a data processor with a wireless communication device for processing image data from the camera pods. Each camera pod includes a camera for capturing image data of a target mounted on a vehicle, and a communication device for wirelessly communicating with the data processor. One pod has a calibration target and the other pod has a calibration camera for capturing images of the calibration target. The pedestals each have a manually-operated clamp for removably fixedly attaching the tower to the pedestal in one of a plurality of positions such that the orientation of the camera pod to the pedestal is angularly adjustable, allowing horizontal rotation of the camera pod.
US10298812B2
A temporary dot pattern at a dot pattern determining target gradation is determined by adding or removing dots as much as the number of dots corresponding to a gradation difference to or from a dot pattern at a gradation at which a dot pattern is already determined, and a dot pattern at a dot pattern determining target gradation is determined by performing a replacement process of replacing dots including some of dots at a dot pattern determined gradation among the dots in the temporary dot pattern with non-dot arrangements. A halftone mask may be constituted by a group of dot patterns at each gradation, or the halftone mask may be constituted by setting a dot pattern for each gradation as a threshold value.
US10298810B2
An authentication device includes: an image capturing unit that captures an image of a person around an apparatus including the authentication device; an authentication unit that performs authentication by a facial image captured by the image capturing unit; and a selection unit, when the image capturing unit captures facial images of plural persons, that selects a facial image of a person who is determined to have a high possibility of using the apparatus from the facial images of the plural persons.
US10298805B2
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having a computer program stored thereon and readable by a computer of a portable device, the computer program, when executed by the computer, causes the portable device to perform operations including: receiving a user operation of designating operation specifying information; instructing an image processing apparatus to execute the image processing operation of a content specified by the operation specifying information; storing history information indicative of an execution history of the receiving and the instructing; extracting, from among a plurality of program identification information, program identification information associated with the extraction condition information coinciding with the stored history information; and displaying the extracted program identification information.
US10298802B2
A scanner includes a generator that synthesizes output of a first sensor group and output of a second sensor group where the image data overlaps in part, and generates image data; and a controller that controls the second sensor group to synthesize and output the output of n photoelectric conversion elements at positions based on the relative positions of the first sensor group and second sensor group.
US10298797B2
Sealability between a cover member and a transparent member of an optical scanning apparatus is improved to improve dustproof performance. An optical scanning apparatus includes an elastic member 75 for sealing a portion between a cover member 70 and a glass member 90, the elastic member 75 being formed on the cover member 70 so as to surround an opening portion 42, the elastic member 75 being formed from a material that differs from that of the cover member 70. The elastic member 75 has a protrusion 75a that extends towards the glass member 90. The protrusion 75a fills a gap between the cover member 70 and the glass member 90 by contacting the glass member 90 and being elastically deformed.
US10298796B2
An information processing apparatus including: a sound wave sensor that outputs a sound wave and receives a reflected wave of the output sound wave; a control unit configured to measure an amplitude of a sound wave, at predetermined time intervals, which is received by the sound wave sensor after the sound wave sensor outputs a sound wave; and a power control unit configured to shift the information processing apparatus from a first power state into a second power state where power consumption is larger than that in the first power state, on a basis that the amplitude of the sound wave measured by the control unit is larger than or equal to a threshold value, wherein in a case where a number of times amplitude of a sound wave measured by the control unit is larger than or equal to the threshold value during a predetermined period of time is larger than or equal to a predetermined number of times, the control unit maintains the power state of the information processing apparatus in the first power state.
US10298792B2
An image forming device, which is included in an image forming apparatus, includes an image reader, a sheet conveyance passage, a transparent body, an opposing body, and multiple curved opposing portions. The image reader is configured to read an image formed on a target object. The sheet conveyance passage is a passage through which the target object is conveyed. The transparent body is disposed between the sheet conveyance passage and the image reader. The opposing body is disposed facing the transparent body on a side opposite the image reader. The multiple curved opposing portions have respective outwardly curving reference planes. The multiple curved opposing portions are sequentially switched and located at a predetermined image reading position at which the multiple curved opposing portions face the transparent body with a gap through which the target object passes the predetermined image reading position.
US10298785B2
A system according to the present invention includes a first communication unit, a second communication unit, and an executing unit. The first communication unit is connected to a first network segment. The second communication unit is connected to a second network segment different from the first network segment, and receives a processing request, which requests to execute predetermined processing, from an apparatus via the second network segment and transmits the received processing request to the first communication unit. The executing unit executes the predetermined processing in response to the processing request received by the first communication unit.
US10298775B1
A system for selecting communication routes based on multiple criteria is disclosed. The system can dynamically update route ranking criteria without loading new data tables. Further, the system can be implemented in the context of a route ranking system that provides a list of routes for processing or completing a call. The list of routes can be generated in a ranked order to facilitate attempts to route the call based on the predefined routing criteria. Further, the route ranking system can determine the list of routes based on one or more criteria including, for example, margins, call type, and vendor ratings, to name a few. Advantageously, modifications can be made to values associated with the routing criteria without requiring the loading of new tables associated with the routing criteria. These modifications can be associated with an expiration condition thereby enabling increased flexibility in determining the list of routes.
US10298774B2
A system and method in various embodiments implements a virtual spectrum band stacking technique facilitating spectrum sharing by converting and combining spectrum bands consisting of several different RF channels, common air interfaces, and radio channel protocols in the radio frequency channel domain to form IP Virtual Radio Channels (IP-VRCs) in the packet data domain. This virtual spectrum stacking technique combines the transmissions of contiguous and non-contiguous RF channels with differing physical layers into IP-VRCs. This technique enables simultaneous parallel high-speed wireless transmission; virtual radio channel hopping for enhanced security; and customized security schemes for different IP-VRC Groups. The deployment of the combination of IP-VRC Groups; Universal “Small Cell” Base Stations; and Universal Wireless End-Point Devices allows the aggregation of all available spectrum bands for use within a building environment. Some benefits of this deployment include expansion of spectrum utilization, service quality, security, applications and transmission throughput for wireless end-point devices.
US10298773B2
Systems and methods for connecting and disconnecting to a DSL ring are provided. A cross connect node is used to connect multiple endpoints into a DSL ring. When a given endpoint is powered down, a cross connect bypasses that endpoint such that the ring is maintained. POTS service is provided irrespective of whether the endpoint is bypassed for the purpose of the ring. The status of a bypassed node can be ascertained using baseband signalling.
US10298771B1
Each of a plurality of dwelling buildings includes a dwelling parent device, a management office parent device, and a building control unit communicatively connected to each dwelling parent device in the host building and the management office parent device in the host building via an intercom line. The building control units are interconnected via a network that is connected with a management center that includes a centralized management office parent device and a centralized control unit connected to the centralized management office parent device via the intercom line. The building control unit in each dwelling building can set a calling time zone in which it is possible to call the centralized management office parent device or the management office parent device of other building, in addition to the management office parent device in the host building. When there is a calling from the dwelling parent device in the set calling time zone, the management office parent device in the host building receives a calling signal from the dwelling parent device and the building control unit also receives the calling signal from the dwelling parent device and transmits the calling signal to the centralized management office parent device or the management office parent device of the other building.
US10298759B1
A method comprising: establishing a first session with a user; determining a unique identifier of the first session; generating a session identifier to identify the first session and storing it in a cache in association with the unique identifier; outputting an address and the session identifier, for delivery to the user; receiving an authentication request transmitted to the address from the user's first device, and in response, outputting a message to the first device, the message comprising the session identifier and an address at which a request for authentication by an authentication service can be directed; receiving an authentication success message comprising the session identifier and indicating authentication of the user; establishing a second session with a service agent; and in response to receiving the message, querying the cache with the session identifier to determine the unique identifier, and connecting the first and second sessions together using the unique identifier.
US10298748B2
The present subject matter relates to one or more devices, systems and/or methods for generating sealing current at a customer's premises or residence and injecting the sealing current into a DSL service provider's telephone cables to prevent the oxidation or corrosion of wire splices or connections on the telephone cables transporting DSL services. A cable pair stabilizer unit is connected at the customer's premises or residence, between the service provider's telephone cables and the customer's residential gateway/modem. The cable pair stabilizer unit comprises circuitry for generating the sealing current and for injecting the sealing current into the service provider's telephone cables transporting DSL services. The cable pair stabilizer unit may be combined with an AC/DC power supply adapter as a single, integrated device. The cable pair stabilizer unit may alternatively be combined with or inside of the Residential Gateway as a single, integrated device.
US10298736B2
A voice signal processing apparatus includes: an input unit which receives a voice signal of a user; a detecting unit which detects an auxiliary signal; and a signal processing unit which transmits the voice signal to an external terminal in a first operation mode and transmits the voice signal and the auxiliary signal to the external terminal using the same or different protocols in a second operation mode.
US10298729B2
A connector is formed by fixing two or more connector parts each made from a resin to each other by press fitting or with an adhesive. At least one weld part regulating thermal deformation between the connector parts is formed in a boundary portion between the adjoining connector parts.
US10298717B2
Aspects of the embodiments are directed to a network element that is configured for receiving, from an access point, a data packet originating from a client, the data packet comprising a packet header that comprises a packet header augmented with context information; decapsulating the packet header to identify the context information; applying a client-specific policy on the packet based, at least in part, on the context information; and forwarding the packet to a next hop in the network. The network element can be part of a network, such as a datacenter fabric architecture.
US10298709B1
Implementations are provided herein for utilizing the two-part nature of HDFS protocol communications received in a non-native HDFS environment to use discriminative information learned in the NameNode request to make the client experience more efficient. NameNode requests can be received by any node among a cluster of nodes. It can be appreciated that in some non-native HDFS, clients can communicate with any nodes among a cluster to perform transactions and need not first communicate with a NameNode. Thus, upon receiving a NameNode request, the non-native HDFS Cluster of Nodes can prefetch data necessary from stable storage to cache memory for efficient reads and/or writes, allocate space on disk for writes, assign the client to communicate with a specific node among the cluster of nodes based on available cluster resources, etc. In this sense, a more efficient client experience can be offered for HDFS clients within a non-native HDFS environment.
US10298702B2
Technologies are described for facilitating replay of requests for database operations. A plurality of requests for database operations are received. Each of the plurality of requests includes a type, an access unit identifier, and a chronological identifier. Execution dependencies are determined between the plurality of requests based on the type, access unit identifier, and chronological identifier of each of the plurality of requests. The execution dependencies are stored.
US10298696B2
According to a first aspect of the present invention there is provided a method of operating an Application Server (AS) that implements an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) supplementary service for a user. The method includes configuring a rule for the user, the rule having an action specifying whether or not an announcement is to be provided and, if an announcement is to be provided, defining media to be used for the announcement. The method further includes determining if a condition of the rule is met by a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) message relating to the user and, if so, implementing an announcement in accordance with the action.
US10298694B1
In general, techniques are described for performing flow timeout control within a network. A device comprising a processor may be configured to perform the techniques. The processor may be configured to, as one example, determine, from a first packet of a packet flow, a minimum timeout value for the packet flow indicative of a time duration during which a first computing device will not send a keep-alive message to prevent the packet flow from timing out. The processor may then determine an intermediate timeout value for the packet flow based on a comparison of the minimum timeout value to a maximum timeout value, and specify the intermediate timeout value in a second packet of the packet flow sent by the second network device to the first network device in response to the first packet.
US10298689B2
A method in a first network node for assisting an electronic device to benefit from a service provided by a cloud is provided. The first network node is comprised in the cloud. The first network node obtains information from the electronic device. The information comprises computation and storage capability of the electronic device. The first network node determines a push content based on the information. The first network node retrieves binary executable and content from one or more second network nodes comprised in the cloud. The binary executable and content are based on the push content. The first network node then pushes the binary executable and content to the electronic device. This is to enable the electronic device to benefit from the service of the cloud without accessing the cloud.
US10298679B1
A computing system is disclosed for reassigning ownership of a data object between computing nodes. A first computing node having control of a data object transmits a hand-off message indicating control of the data object is being transferred to a second computing node. The first computing node queues requests received at the first computing node relating to the data item. A third computing node that interacts with the data object receives the hand-off message and, in response, delays transmitting requests relating to the data object. The third computing node transmits an acknowledgment to the first computing node. Upon receipt of the acknowledgment, the first computing node communicates to the second computing node to assume ownership and transmits any requests that had queued at the first node. When the second computing node receives the message, it transmits a message claiming control of the data object. In response to the message claiming control, the third computing node transmits its queued requests relating to the data item to the second computing node.
US10298674B2
At least three different techniques are presented that facilitate cluster formation in clusterable devices such as drones. The techniques facilitate power saving in the individual clusterable devise as well as for the entirety of the cluster. The first technique utilizes a NAN application based cluster formation decision. The second technique initiates a cluster grade merging evaluation based on a “merge allowed” field in a synchronization beacon set by the discovery engine. The third technique involves a discovery engine managing cluster formation with pre-set cluster grade information.
US10298671B2
A load balancing device and method are provided. The load balancing device includes a processor. The processor is configured to receive a plurality of tasks from a plurality of user devices, each of the plurality of tasks involving a respective one of multiple sets of sessions. The processor is further configured to generate a task ID for each of the plurality tasks using a randomization function, at least one task ID for at least one of the plurality of tasks changing over time responsive to one or more criterion. The processor is additionally configured to allocate the plurality of tasks amongst a set of worker entities such that all the sessions involved in the plurality of tasks received from a respective same one of the plurality of user devices is assigned to a same one of the worker entities in the set.
US10298667B2
The invention relates to a method for a remote presentation between a first terminal (100) and at least one second terminal (200, 200′) connected via a network, including the steps of: generating (20) events during an action of a user on one of the peripherals of the first terminal, and sending said generated events to a machine controller (110) of the first terminal. The invention is essentially characterized by also including the steps of: sending (30) said generated events to a web server (300); and sending (40) said events from said web server (300) to at least one machine controller among the machine controller (210) of said second terminal (200) and the machine controller (410) of a video server (400), the configuration of which is compatible with that of the first terminal (100).
US10298662B2
There is presented a system for providing a content stored on a medium, the system comprising a media presentation module including a processor. The processor is configured to retrieve a content payload including a digital content from a data structure residing on the medium, and to retrieve a content-describing metadata stored separately from the digital content, from the data structure. The content-describing metadata provide content information including media encoding information for the digital content and a media profile information for the digital content. The content-describing metadata are configured to provide the content information to the media presentation module prior to rendering the digital content. In one embodiment, the processor is further configured to configure the media presentation module based on the media encoding information and the media profile information, and to present the content on a display.
US10298658B2
A communications system provides access to services when direct Internet connectivity is not practical. The system includes a beam modem and a beam API server. The beam modem receives a web request from a client device through a short range interface, modifies the request, and transmits the modified web request to the beam API server via a cellular connection. The beam API server then extracts an endpoint address and request data from the web request and determines an external web service from the endpoint address. The server transmits the request data to the external web service and, after receiving a response to the request data, reduces the size of the response data and sends it back to the beam modem via the cellular connection. The beam modem converts the response data to client device readable form and transmits it to the client device via the short range interface.
US10298654B2
Techniques are disclosed for automatically constructing a human-friendly and meaningful URL based on the content, context, or both, of the resource. An alternate URL can be constructed by analyzing and extracting keywords or other portions of content from a webpage automatically. The content of the webpage or other resource is obtained and analyzed using keyword extraction filters to derive one or more keywords that uniquely represent the content of the resource. An alternate URL is constructed based on the keywords. The keywords can be extracted from any portion of the content or from dictionary definitions or similar meanings of the content. The alternate URL is constructed such that it is unique among existing URLs. The alternate URL meaningfully represents the content, permitting the user to use or share the alternate URL on social media and elsewhere.
US10298645B2
A computer application streaming system includes an optimization unit coupled to a streaming device to determine streaming optimal playable settings for a remote user device corresponding to a selected computer application and a sending unit coupled to the optimization unit to manage streaming of the streaming optimal playable settings over a network connected to the remote user device. A receiving unit is coupled to the network to recover the streaming optimal playable settings for application to the remote user device when employing the selected computer application. An optional feedback unit is coupled to the remote user device to provide remote information over the network for modifying the streaming optimal playable settings, and an optional update unit is coupled to the streaming device to manage modification of the streaming optimal playable settings as directed by the remote information. A method of streaming a computer application is also provided.
US10298644B2
A communication server and accompanying communication devices allow near instantaneous communication between users of the communication devices. A communication device may be configured with multiple channels, where each channel is assigned a corresponding communication device. As the communication devices are registered with the communication server, each communication device has knowledge of other registered communication devices. Thus, communication devices may communicate nearly instantaneously with each other. Furthermore, as the communication device is equipped with multiple channels, a single communication device may host a conference call with other communication devices. In addition, communication device may include multiple buttons to control the communication device, and indicator lights to indicate the status of calls with other communication devices.
US10298641B2
A system processes streaming data and includes at least one processor. The system may write streaming data received from a data source as messages in queues at a queuing cluster. The queuing cluster includes a coordinator node to direct the messages to non-coordinator nodes of the queuing cluster. The system may retrieve the data from the queues based on subscription of topics and store the retrieved data in a consumable repository.
US10298640B1
In various embodiments, an audio streaming service may provide a plurality of channels. On a particular channel, different types of content can be streamed to audio devices connected to that channel, including channel content overlaid with group content and/or personalized content. Channel content refers to same content that is streamed to all of the audio devices that are connected to the channel. Group content refers to audio from a channel host or deejay that is overlaid on the channel content and may be provided to a select group of devices. In response to the group content, the audio streaming service may receive personalized content from some devices, such as user-generated content or responses, which may be used to generate individual content for the devices providing the personalized content. The group content, personalized content, or any other channel content may be overlaid with the channel content.
US10298628B2
Establishing or reestablishing media streams for handover of calls in a communication network where the server in the network can be addressed by the client from the access points of the network and for establishing a direct media path between endpoints in different network segments, which are interconnected by servers integrated with gateways.
US10298627B2
A system for transmitting encapsulated media over tunnels, in response to a first request from a first application, establishes a first tunnel between a first tunneling client of a user equipment (“UE”) and a tunneling server and establishes a first outer transport layer and a first outer network layer and establishes a local tunneling proxy. Further, the system, in response to a second request from a second application, establishes a second tunnel between the first tunneling client and the tunneling server, where the second request includes a request to use the first outer transport layer and the first outer network layer established in conjunction with the first tunnel, and the second request is forwarded to the tunneling server via the local tunneling proxy.
US10298626B2
A gateway device for use between a Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) network and a Fiber Channel (FC) storage area network (SAN) device includes a controller, at least one first native Fiber Channel F_Port in operable communication with the controller and configured to interface with a native Fiber Channel N_Port of the FC SAN device, and at least one first virtual N_Port (VN_Port) linked to the at least one first native Fiber Channel F_Port and in operable communication with the controller; the controller being configured to translate an FC FDISC received by the at least one first native Fiber Channel F_Port into an FIP NPIV FDISC and to send the FIP NPIV FDISC on the at least one first virtual N_Port (VN_Port) to establish another virtual link.
US10298614B2
Devices, systems, and methods of generating and managing behavioral biometric cookies. The system monitors user-interactions of a user, that are performed via an input unit of an end-user device; and extracts a set of user-specific characteristics, which are used as a behavioral profile or behavioral signature. The set of user-specific characteristics are further used as a behavioral biometric cookie data-item, allowing the system to distinguish between two human users that utilize the same electronic device; and allowing the system to distinguish between a human user and an automated script. The system further allows creation and utilization of behavioral sub-cookies that distinguish among multiple users of the same device. The system also allows creation of a cross-device behavioral cookie, to track browsing or usage history of a single user across multiple electronic devices.
US10298597B2
In an example embodiment, a system for evaluating published content is provided. The system includes at least one processor and a plurality of components including instructions executable by the at least one processor. The components include a reporting component and an evaluation component. The reporting component is to receive a communication from one of a plurality of users of a network-based system, the communication identifying content accessible via the network-based system as objectionable. An evaluation component is to evaluate the identified content based on a reputation value of the one of the plurality of users to determine an action to take with respect to the identified content. The reputation value is based at least in part on a history of objectionable content reporting by the one of the plurality of users.
US10298596B2
A trusted branded email method and apparatus in one aspect detects branded electronic messages and performs validation before it is sent to a recipient. In another aspect, an electronic messages is branded by embedding branding assets and validation signatures. Algorithms that generate validation signatures are dynamically selected to further strengthen the security aspects. Branding assets are presented to a user using a distinct indicia that represents to the user that the branding assets are secure.
US10298593B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure include a platform for a resource provisioning system. The platform can execute big data analysis techniques to access-right data to generate statistics that characterize a set of users. For example, characteristics of users who access resources events can be analyzed with varying levels of detail. The access-right data can include access right assignments, and data identifying the users to which access rights are assigned. In some implementations, spatial management systems can access the platform to generate statistics for the resources.
US10298591B2
An Open Authorization (OAuth) Client Secret of an application associated with a Multi-Tenant Application (MTA) deployed in a cloud-computing environment if read with a Fiori Launchpad (FLP) Deployer. The FLP Deployer writes, as content to a FLP Repository, the OAuth Client Secret and FLP Config data for the application read from a FLP Config data store. An App Router/shared FLP (App Router/FLP) accesses the FLP Repository to read content and OAuth Client Secrets for the application that has deployed to the App Router/FLP. A User Account and Authentication (UAA) service associated with the App Router/FLP is accessed to fetch an authorization token for a user after receiving a user connection to the App Router/FLP. An original user authorization token obtained for the user is exchanged with an application-specific authorization token. User interface elements displayed in the FLP are filtered based on scopes read from the exchanged application-specific authorization token.
US10298586B2
A method and/or system for using a file whitelist may include receiving a request to approve an application for release in an application store. The request may comprise application data. The application data may comprise a resource manifest and/or a file whitelist. The resource manifest may comprise, for example, one or more resource items. The file whitelist may comprise, for example, one or more file items. The request may be analyzed based on application data. A determination may be made whether the applications may be released in the application store based on the analyzing of the applications data. A request to access a particular file may be received. A determination of whether to grant the request may be based on a resource manifest and/or a file whitelist associated with the application.
US10298585B1
A system supports asset transfers among blockchains of differing distributed ledger technologies using interop circuitry. The interop circuitry may receive asset permissions from origin and target participant circuitry. The asset permissions may support transfer of an asset from an origin blockchain to a target blockchain. The interop circuitry, acting on behalf of the origin and target participant circuitry, locks an asset on the origin blockchain. Then the interop circuitry creates the asset on the target blockchain. The locking of the asset on the origin blockchain may prevent a double-expend opportunity, where the asset can be redeemed on the origin blockchain and on the target blockchain.
US10298582B2
Controlling access to sensitive data can be difficult during an application development effort. A developer may not be authorized to see the data that is to be used by the application. Credentials used in a development environment to access development data can require modification when the application is migrated to a deployed environment. Changing the code in the deployed environment increases risks of change induced incidents. The technology disclosed allows for the creation of a named credential object, where the credentials for different environments are stored, and where the named credential object is called by metadata. This allows the promotion of code from a development environment to a deployed environment without changes to code, and without giving access to sensitive data to the developer.
US10298581B2
In one embodiment, an authorized signing authority server receives an authenticity request from a security registrar to vouch for authenticity of a particular device. Based on receiving the authenticity request, the authorized signing authority server may then determine an authenticity state of the particular device, and may also request a device provisioning file for the particular device from a device provisioning server, the device provisioning file defining one or more network security policies for the particular device. Upon receiving the device provisioning file from the device provisioning server, the authorized signing authority server may then return the authenticity state and the device provisioning file for the particular device to the security registrar, causing the security registrar to complete authentication of the particular device based on the authenticity state and the device provisioning file.
US10298574B2
A method includes a client device forming a link-layer protocol packet having a field that includes first credentials of the client device and sending the link-layer protocol packet to a directly attached network device while the client device is in a first configuration. The method further includes a management system obtaining the first credentials from the network device and using the first credentials to access the client device and change the client device from the first configuration to a second configuration. Optionally, a computer system may include a plurality of client devices that implement the method to facilitate securely configuring the entire computer system. Preferably, each client device generates system-unique first credentials.
US10298573B2
A management system includes an authentication information management unit configured to manage authentication information used in authentication of a request to participate in a session among communication terminals; a content data management unit configured to manage content data transmitted among the communication terminals in the session; a request acceptance unit configured to accept a request for the content data managed by the content data management unit; an authentication unit configured to perform authentication using the authentication information managed by the authentication information management unit; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the content data managed by the content data management unit to a communication terminal that is a request source of the content data, when authentication of the request for the content data by the authentication unit using the authentication information is successful.
US10298569B2
Systems and methods for verifying human users through cognitive processes that computers cannot imitate are described herein. Human cognitive language processing techniques may be used to verify human users. Visual patterns and tests may be used to distinguish between humans and computers because computer-based visual recognition is fundamentally different from human visual processing. Persistent plugins and tests may be used to continuously verify human users.
US10298564B2
The invention relates to a method for a first communication device to perform authenticated distance measurement between the first communication device and a second communication device, wherein the first and the second communication device share a common secret and the common secret is used for performing the distance measurement between the first and the second communication device. The invention also relates to a method of determining whether data stored on a first communication device are to be accessed by a second communication device. Moreover, the invention relates to a communication device for performing authenticated distance measurement to a second communication device. The invention also relates to an apparatus for playing back multimedia content comprising a communication device.
US10298550B2
A computer program product for transmitting data flow in a network between two resources using a processing circuit to perform a method which includes obtaining a data record from a first resource, storing the data record and an associated data record identifier in a first memory, transmitting the data record from a first network to a second network, storing the data record and an associated data record identifier in a second memory, determining by an inline service provider whether the data record is suitable for transmission from a first resource to a second resource; based on determining that the data record is suitable for transmission by the inline service provider transmitting only the data record identifier stored in the second memory to the first switch and retrieving the data record stored in the first memory associated with the data record identifier for transmission to the second resource.
US10298541B2
In response to a request for sending second candidate information of a first communication terminal to a second communication terminal, a communication management system adds at least one of the member communication terminals indicated by the second candidate information of the first communication terminal, to first candidate information of the second communication terminal.
US10298528B2
A digital magazine server receives user comments on content items of a digital magazine and generates comment threads. A comment thread has one or more user comments associated with a content item and at least one topic. A topic thread on a selected topic includes one or more comment threads related to the selected topic. To select comment threads for a topic thread based on the selected topic, the digital magazine server determines the relevance of the topic of each comment thread to the topic of the topic thread and determines the quality of the comment thread based on a plurality of quality factors such as number of comments and timestamps of the comments in a comment thread. The digital magazine server aggregates the comment threads based on at least one of topic relevance determination and thread quality determination and selects comment threads based on the aggregation.
US10298520B2
A relay apparatus includes line cards, switch fabric cards, and a management card. The management card and the switch fabric cards are connected through a first communication network, and the switch fabric cards and the line cards are connected through a second communication network. The switch fabric card includes an error control unit. The error control unit stops switching of data transmission using a path of the second communication network by controlling the switch fabric card as an abnormal state based on an error signal that is output when a fault of the first communication network or an internal fault of the switch fabric card is detected as an error.
US10298514B2
Today's cloud software, especially cloud management software, faces a complex, distributed, cross platform environment with extremely diversified software components. Cloud Connection Pool (CCP) is a technique to obtain a connection in such an environment and is more complex than a traditional connection pool. CCP allows requesting components to establish connections to target components. CCP uses cloud mapping data that associates cloud components with each other and stores pool data that identifies connection pools for components (or “managing components”) that manage target components. In response to a request for a connection from a requesting component, the CCP determines a managing component that is associated with the requested target component and identifies (or creates) a connection pool that is associated with the managing component. The CCP then retrieves a connection from the connection pool and returns the connection to the requesting component.
US10298506B2
A data traffic scheduling method that includes selecting, using a network controller, plurality of flows that traverses a network node, generating an augmented graph based on a flow rate of the plurality of flows and link capacities of the network node, computing a flow schedule for the flow using the augmented graph to minimize delay or delay variance of the flows, and outputting the flow schedule. A data traffic scheduling method that includes obtaining, using a network controller, a network topology for a network, generating an augmented graph based on the network topology, converting the augmented graph to a mixed-integer linear program, scheduling a flow in the network using the mixed-integer linear program to minimize delay or delay variance of the flow, and outputting a flow schedule.
US10298502B2
A method, a device, and a system for performing balance adjustment on egress traffic of an SDN-based IDC network are disclosed, to resolve a technical problem that balance adjustment cannot be performed on egress traffic of an IDC network. The method includes: sending group information of at least one AS group to an SDN controller, where the group information is used by the SDN controller to generate an AS filtering policy and deliver the AS filtering policy to a DPE; obtaining AS traffic information that is obtained by the DPE through statistics collection according to the AS filtering policy; generating a traffic adjustment policy according to the AS traffic information, where the traffic adjustment policy is used to instruct to adjust traffic of a destination AS group to a destination egress link; and sending the traffic adjustment policy to the SDN controller.
US10298491B2
In response to a path monitoring task for a particular source/destination pair, a network controller determines whether stored information includes paths for the particular source/destination pair. When the stored information includes paths for the particular source/destination pair, a subset of source ports is selected that covers all the paths for the particular source/destination pair. A probe message is sent to cause an ingress switch to send probe packets using the subset of source ports. Paths for the particular source/destination pair are computed based on received probe packets. A determination is made whether a topology for the data center network has changed by comparing the paths computed based on the receive probe packets for the particular source/destination pair with the paths included in the stored information for the particular source/destination pair.
US10298489B2
“Multi-tenant awareness” is added to a set of one or more packet processing devices in a Software Defined Network (SDN) having a controller. For each of one or more tenants, information in a table associates network protocol address attributes with an Internet Protocol (IP) address unique to the tenant. The table is associated with a multiple-layer translation layer being managed by the SDN controller. As a data packet traverses the translation layer, network protocol address attributes are translated according to values in the table to enable logical routing of the packet (to a given PPD. This translation occurs dynamically (or “on-the-fly”) as packets are “on route” to their destination. By implementing a multi-layer network address translation (NAT), one layer may be used to translate network protocol address source attributes, while a second layer may be used to translate network protocol address destination attributes.
US10298483B2
An operator dashboard (user interface) used for testing disparate devices simultaneously and independently and further capable of asynchronous communication is disclosed.
US10298477B2
Described is a server monitoring technology that is scalable to large numbers of servers, e.g., in a datacenter. Agents on servers run queries to monitor data sources for that server, such as performance counters and other events. The agents monitor their resource usage and those of monitored events to stay within an administrator-specified resource budget (policy), e.g., by modifying the running queries and/or monitoring parameters. A controller receives results of the monitoring, analyzes the results, and takes action as needed with respect to server operation and monitoring. The controller may dynamically update an agent's queries, monitoring parameters and/or monitored data post-processing operations. The controller may issue alerts and reports, including alerts indicative of inter-server problems between two or more servers.
US10298475B2
A receiver and method for estimating an available bandwidth of a data channel streaming video data are provided. In one embodiment, the receiver includes: (1) a physical interface configured to receive the video data from a network, (2) a packet memory configured to store frames of the video data, (3) a dispersed packet time calculator configured to calculate a total time for one of the frames to go through the data channel, and (4) a bandwidth estimator configured to determine the available bandwidth of the data channel based on a number of data units received for the one frame and the total time.
US10298467B2
There is provided a method of configuring a given communication network. Network-access information associated with at least one network configuration of the given communication network is stored. The network-access information comprises information about network connections between devices of the given communication network that are allowed when the at least one network configuration is being implemented in the given communication network. The at least one network configuration comprises a current network configuration of the given communication network. A user interface is provided to enable a user to make a change in the current network configuration of the given communication network. The user input defining a target functionality to be achieved for at least one device of the given communication network is received in a generic, device-independent form, via the user interface. The user input is translated from the generic, device-independent form into a device-specific form to determine at least one change to be made in the current network configuration. The at least one change to be made in the current network configuration is analyzed, while taking into account the network-access information associated with the current network configuration, to determine an impact of the at least one change on the network connections between the devices of the given communication network. The user is provided with information indicative of the impact of the at least one change on the network connections between the devices of the given communication network, via the user interface. The at least one change is verified with the user, via the user interface, thereby enabling the user to accept or reject the at least one change to be made in the current network configuration.
US10298460B2
A server rack, includes a first system and a second system. The first system includes a host processing complex and a first wireless management system that manages a managed element of the first system out of band from a hosted processing environment instantiated on the first system and that provides a first wireless connection beacon. The second system includes a second wireless management system that receives the first wireless connection beacon and that provides a first indication to the first wireless management system that the second wireless management system received the first wireless connection beacon. The first wireless management system further determines a first location of the second system based upon the first indication.
US10298458B2
An example of a distributed system partition can include a method for client service in a distributed switch. The method can include maintaining local and global connection state information between a primary and a secondary controlling fiber channel (FC) over Ethernet (FCoE) Forwarders (FCFs) or FC forwarder in a distributed switch. A partition in the distributed switch can be detected and service to subtended clients of the distributed switch can continued using local state information.
US10298446B2
A device management method for use in a primary router, includes: establishing a management connection with a relay router; acquiring a management interface identifier from the relay router via the management connection, the management interface identifier being an identifier of an Application Programming Interface (API) in the relay router for providing a management function; and transmitting a management instruction to the relay router via the management connection, the management instruction carrying the management interface identifier and being configured to manage an electronic device connected to the relay router.
US10298444B2
Improved techniques are provided for processing streams of data. The duration of the time that an event is eligible for remaining in a time-based window can be variable for different events received via the same event stream. In certain embodiments, the duration of time that an input event spends in a time-based window is a function of one or more values of one or more attributes of the event. Since different events can have different one or more attribute values, the different events can spend different amounts of time in the time-based window for that event stream. The amount of time that an event spends in a time-based window can be controlled via the one or more attributes of the event.
US10298440B2
A transmission apparatus executes a reception processing that receives a first alarm detected in a first transmission apparatus different from the own apparatus from among a plurality of transmission apparatus from a second transmission apparatus different from the own apparatus from among the plurality of transmission apparatus, executes a detection processing that detects a second alarm of the own apparatus, executes a mask processing that masks alarms including the first alarm received by the reception processing and the second alarm detected by the detection processing, and executes a sending processing that sends an alarm that is not masked by the mask processing from among the alarms to a third transmission apparatus different from the own apparatus and the second transmission apparatus from among the plurality of transmission apparatus or sending the alarm to a given apparatus different from any of the plurality of transmission apparatus.
US10298431B2
A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may generate a first signal that utilizes a tail suppression signal generated from data and utilizes a first unique word. Elements of the data and the first signal may be mapped to one or more discrete Fourier transform spread (DFT-S) functions. An inverse DFT on symbols generated by the one or more DFT-S functions may be performed to generate a second signal for transmission.
US10298420B1
A high-speed serial data interface includes a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter includes a feed-forward equalization (FFE) module. The FFE module has a main tap and at least one secondary tap. In a first mode, a sum of absolute values of a main tap compensation value and a secondary tap compensation value of each one of the at least one secondary tap is equal to one. In a second mode, the main tap compensation value has a unity gain equal to one, and each secondary tap compensation value is greater than or equal to the secondary tap compensation value in the first mode divided by the main tap compensation value in the first mode.
US10298418B2
A system and method for disintegrated channel estimation in wireless networks. The system provides a disintegrated channel estimation technique required to accomplish the spatial diversity supported by cooperative relays. The system includes a filter-and-forward (FF) relaying method with superimposed training sequences for separately estimating the backhaul and the access channels. To reduce inter-relay interference, a generalized filtering technique is provided which multiplexes the superimposed training sequences from different relays to the destination by time-division multiplexing (TDM), frequency-division multiplexing (FDM) and code-division multiplexing (CDM) methods.
US10298416B2
The present invention discloses a method and system for processing a first layer two packet converting a first layer two packet to a first unicast layer two packet at a wireless access point. The wireless access point receives first one or more layer three packets and extracts a first layer two packet from the first one or more layer three packets. If the first layer 2 packet is a multicast packet and it satisfies the predefined rule, the first layer two packet is converted to a layer two unicast packet with a first destination address and send to a Local Area Network (LAN) network interface. If the first layer two packet does not satisfy the predefined rule, it is broadcast to one or more LAN network interface. When the first layer two packet is not a multicast packet, it is sent to its corresponding destination address through one or more LAN network.
US10298409B2
It is provided an apparatus, comprising condition determining means adapted to determine a currently valid condition; selecting means adapted to select a rule-condition pair for a policy controlled object of a user based on the currently valid condition and a received message comprising a first rule-condition pair and a second rule-condition pair for the user, and wherein each of the first and second rule-condition pairs comprises a respective policy rule and a corresponding condition when the respective policy rule is to be applied; rule setting means adapted to set the policy rule comprised in the selected rule-condition pair for the policy controlled object of the user; rule applying means adapted to apply the set policy rule to the policy controlled object of the user.
US10298403B2
Authentication systems and methods for a population of devices each associated with an RFID tag are described. For each device, a secret key is combined cryptographically with a publicly-readable unique identifier (UID) of an RFID tag to obtain a unique authorization signature. The RFID tag is prepared utilizing the unique authorization signature as memory-access and/or tag-operation password(s). The systems and methods may safeguard against attacks whereby compromise of a single tag will not compromise the entire population of devices and may reduce or eliminate the use of inappropriate surgical devices during a surgical procedure.
US10298402B2
Implementations disclose an access control mechanism for peer-to-peer sharing technology. A method includes receiving, by a processing device of a first user device, an encrypted media item and a wrapped encryption key from a second user device via a peer-to-peer connection; transmitting, by the first user device, the wrapped encryption key and a request to a media server to determine whether the first user device is authorized to play the encrypted media item; receiving, from the media server, a response indicating the first user device is authorized to play the encrypted media item, the response comprising an encryption key derived from the wrapped encryption key; and decrypting the encrypted media item using the encryption key to play the media item.
US10298398B2
Implementations relate to peer-to-peer discovery, connection, and data transfer providing privacy protection and increased security features.
US10298391B2
A system for generating symmetric cryptographic keys for communications between hosts. Hosts use associated devices to generate secret keys. Each key is generated based on a static seed and a dynamic seed. The dynamic seed is created from sensor data or auxiliary data. The secret key allows host machines to encrypt, or decrypt, plaintext messages sent to, or received from, other host machines.
US10298383B2
Systems and methods are presented that offer significant improvements in the performance of time division duplex (TDD) systems by utilizing an adaptive synchronous protocol. Conventional TDD systems are limited because data is transmitted during discreet and limited intervals of time, and because TDD transceivers may not simultaneously transmit and receive for reasons of insufficiently separated frequencies and limited receiver selectivity. Typically, TDD systems have significant latency due to the time to change from transmission to reception and the propagation delay time. By synchronizing the master nodes and the one or more remotes and by scheduling the traffic loads between these nodes, remote nodes may begin transmitting before the master node is finished with its transmission, and vice versa. This method reduces latency and improves the frame efficiency. Further, the frame efficiency may improve as the distance from the master node to the remote node increases.
US10298381B1
Data communication apparatus and methods for a multi-wire interface are disclosed. A half rate clock and data recovery (CDR) circuit derives a clock signal including pulses corresponding to symbols transmitted on a 3-wire interface, where the symbols are transmitted at a particular frequency with each of the symbols occurring over a unit interval (UI) time period. The first clock signal is input to a flip-flop logic included in a delay loop, and serves to trigger the first flip-flop logic. A second clock signal is generated using a programmable generator in the delay loop and has a frequency of a half UI and is fed back to a data input of the flip-flop. The output of the flip-flop is used as a recovered clock signal for the CDR at a half rate frequency. This design provides ease of timing control, a delay line without extra nonlinear-effects, and less hardware overhead.
US10298376B2
A method of generating a reference signal includes acquiring a base sequence and acquiring a reference signal sequence with a length N from the base sequence. Good PAPR/CM characteristics of the reference signal can be kept to enhance performance of data demodulation or uplink scheduling.
US10298373B2
A radio base station, user equipment (UE), and method of control signaling in wireless communication systems. Control information is transferred from a base station to at least one UE, via a plurality of common pilot channels. A set of unique pilot sequences is predefined, and the base station assigns specific pilot sequences from the set of pilot sequences to specific common pilot channels, forming a pilot sequence assignment pattern representing specific control information. The UE, having knowledge of the relations between pilot sequence assignment patterns and control information, interprets the received pilot sequence assignment pattern as specific control information. The method is particularly well suited for broadcast type control information.
US10298370B1
Systems and techniques relating to wireless networking systems and techniques, namely employing acknowledgement mechanisms utilized with trigger frames, include: transmitting, by a first wireless device, a first frame, wherein the first frame comprises a field indicating a response frame type associated with reception of the first frame; receiving, by the first wireless device from a second wireless device, an acknowledgement (ACK) frame associated with the field in the first frame via an established wireless communication channel, the ACK frame having a frame type corresponding to the response frame type indicated in the first frame; and receiving, by the first wireless device from the second wireless device, additional frames associated with the ACK frame.
US10298367B2
Methods and apparatuses are provided for transmitting a signal using a sequence in a wireless communication system. A first sequence used to transmit a first signal in a first channel is determined by performing group-hopping using a pseudo-random pattern over a first group of sequences. A second sequence used to transmit a second signal in a second channel is determined by performing the group-hopping using the pseudo-random pattern over a second group of sequences.
US10298361B2
A method for sending forward error correction (FEC) configuration information by a sending apparatus in a multimedia system is provided. The method includes sending source FEC configuration information for an FEC source packet to a receiving apparatus, wherein the source FEC configuration information includes information related to an FEC source or repair packet that is sent first among at least one FEC source or repair packet if an FEC source or repair packet block includes the at least one FEC source or repair packet.
US10298357B2
The present disclosure discloses a photonic chip. The photonic chip receives a first optical signal and a second optical signal with different wavelengths from two optical sources, respectively. The photonic chip includes a polarization multiplexing element (PME). The PME receives the first and the second optical signals from the first and the second optical sources respectively and combines the first and the second optical signals into a single optical path. The PME polarizes the first optical signal to have a different polarization than the second optical signal and transmits the combined first and the second optical signals in a common waveguide.
US10298356B1
Partial optimization systems and methods of wavelengths or spectrum in an optical network include, based on current services in the optical network each having a route and wavelength assignment and based on a ratio of services that can be changed in the partial optimization, preforming a first stage optimization to determine which of the current services are changed for one or more of the route and the wavelength assignment to attain a reduction of a number of wavelengths; performing a second stage optimization to determine an order of implementing changes from the first stage optimization that with the order minimizing one or more of conflicts and step counts; and causing implementation of the changes in the optical network.
US10298353B2
In an aspect of the present invention, provided is a method for receiving an uplink signal by a base station (BS) in a wireless communication system where a reference signal is not used, including: obtaining information bits by demodulating and decoding a signal of a first user equipment (UE) that is modulated through a differential modulation scheme; estimating a channel between the first UE and the BS using the information bits; and performing successive interference cancellation (SIC) using the signal of the first UE restored through the channel estimation results and the information bits. In this case, the BS may estimate the channel between the first UE and the BS by assuming that an Nth modulation symbol among modulation symbols of the information bits modulated through the differential modulation scheme is fixed to a predetermined constellation point.
US10298352B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to a new radio (NR) single symbol design in which reference signals and data tones are frequency division multiplexed (FDM). In a particular aspect of the disclosure, a different encoding sequence is assigned to each possible value of an information element (IE) such that a minimum distance between encoding sequences corresponding to any pair of possible values is maximized. A symbol corresponding to a particular value of the IE is then transmitted. Here, the symbol is configured according to a sequence selected from a set of sequences corresponding to the particular value of the IE, such that the symbol comprises a plurality of reference signals FDM with a plurality of FDM resource elements.
US10298350B2
An apparatus or method for transmitting data blocks on a communications channel having a radio link between two stations including a user equipment comprises receiving first data blocks from the user equipment, and transmitting second data blocks to the user equipment. A polling interval is dynamically set for the transmission of polling messages to the user equipment after transmission of the second data blocks, the polling interval being set in accordance with at least one of: a size of one or more data blocks received by the apparatus from the user equipment, a size of one or more blocks transmitted from the apparatus to the user equipment, and a service to which the user equipment is subscribed. The apparatus may be used as a PCU in a cellular mobile telephone system.
US10298345B2
Aspects of the present disclosure includes a method and program product for clock synchronization of a networked computer system. The method records a time (t1) when a first codeword marker in a datastream is sent from a master computer to a slave computer and records a second time (t2) when the slave computer receives the first codeword marker. The method includes recording a third time (t3) when a third codeword marker in a datastream is sent from the slave computer to the master computer. The method includes recording a fourth time t4 when the master receives the third codeword marker from the slave. The method calculates a time offset θ, according to; θ = ( t 2 - t 1 ) + ( t 4 - t 3 ) 2 , and a roundtrip delay δ, according to δ=(t4−t1)−(t3−t2). The clock in the slave computer is synchronized with a clock in the master computer using θ and δ.
US10298341B2
A transmitting device and a receiving device. The receiving device includes: a signal to noise ratio measuring device, configured to measure a signal to noise ratio of a pilot frequency aggregation bit stream after demodulation and before coding; a pilot frequency parameter adjusting device configured to adaptively adjust a width of the pilot frequency aggregation and/or interval of pilot frequency clusters according to the signal to noise ratio measured by the signal to noise ratio measuring device; and a frequency parameter reporting device configured to report the width of pilot frequency aggregation and/or the pilot frequency cluster interval adjusted by the pilot frequency parameter adjusting device to the transmitting device.
US10298340B2
A method for improving accuracy of power measurements of low power radio frequency (RF) signals received by a RF signal receiver in which power measurement accuracy taken at a low resolution is compensated with use of multiple RF signal attenuations at a finer resolution. In accordance with exemplary embodiments, incremental RF signal attenuations are applied to the received RF signal. An average of the power measurements, including those with the applied signal attenuations, has a net measurement error less than that of a direct power measurement.
US10298337B2
A processing module for a receiver device. The processor module comprises a channel estimate generation component arranged to output channel estimate information for a received signal, and a timestamping module arranged to determine a ToA measurement for a marker within a packet of the received signal based at least partly on the channel estimate information for the received signal generated by the channel estimate generation component. The channel estimate generation component comprises a validation component arranged to derive a validation pattern for the packet within the received signal for which a ToA measurement is to be determined, identify a section of the packet containing a validation sequence, and perform cross-correlation between at least a part of the validation sequence within the packet and at least a part of the validation pattern to generate channel estimate validation information.
US10298331B2
An optical transmission system is configured to optically transmit data from an optical transmitter to an optical receiver using a plurality of subcarriers. The optical transmitter includes a control unit configured to transmit a measurement signal using a subcarrier included in a band used for optical transmission when a signal is communicated to the optical receiver, the control unit being configured to calculate transmission characteristics obtained between the optical transmitter and the optical receiver based on the measurement signal returned from the optical receiver, and the control unit being configured to allocate, based on the transmission characteristics, a communication link to a subcarrier excellent in the transmission characteristics and least affecting transmission capacity. The optical receiver is configured to return the measurement signal received thereby to the optical transmitter.
US10298326B2
A Wiener filter for equalizing an effect of a first filter on an input signal which is subject to the first filter and to noise and/or interference, wherein: the first filter is dependent on at least one unknown quantity; and the Wiener filter is configured based on an averaged representation of the first filter averaged over the at least one unknown quantity, in place of a representation of the first filter being assumed to be known.
US10298324B2
The invention relates to a free space optical communications device (10) multiplexed in wavelengths of between 400 nm and 1600 nm, said device including demultiplexing means (11) that are designed so as to separately dissociate a number n1 of wavelengths from one another, the demultiplexing means (11) including one or more detectors (110) having a number n2 of optical filters (111) and active elements (112) which correspond to the number n1 of wavelengths, each active element (112) being arranged to selectively detect one wavelength from among said wavelengths (Id . . . Àn) via an optical filter (111) separate from the active element (112) which is included in a housing (113), the optical filter (111) being in contact with a protection means (114), inserted between the optical filter (111) and the active element (112), said protection means (114) closing said housing (113).
US10298323B2
The disclosure is directed to a method and system for generating a pilot tone for an optical signal with an optical telecommunications system. The pilot tone is generated in the digital domain by modulating the data to be transmitted to a destination node within the optical telecommunications network. The modulation of the data introduces occurrence modulation to the optical signal.
US10298316B2
An example system for satellite payload communications includes a digital channelizer and a regenerative communications subsystem (RCS). The digital channelizer includes a plurality of inputs for receiving a plurality of signals from a plurality of uplink beams and a plurality of outputs for outputting the plurality of signals. The RCS includes a plurality of inputs selectably coupled to the digital channelizer outputs to receive signals from selected ones of the digital channelizer outputs and a plurality of outputs selectably coupled to the digital channelizer inputs to transmit the processed signals to selected ones of the digital channelizer inputs. The RCS is configured to process selected ones of the plurality of signals to produce processed signals.
US10298310B2
It would be to provide a method which will work with future versions of LTE-A, be backwards compatible and alleviate interference to signals for basic system operation.The method includes generating one or more Reference Signals associated with the one or more Channel Quality Indicators, and includes mapping the one or more Channel Quality Indicator-Reference Signals to the last symbol of the second slot of the one or more subframes.
US10298300B2
A method of a user equipment (UE) for a channel state information (CSI) feedback in an advanced communication system. The method comprises receiving, from a base station (BS), CSI feedback configuration information for a pre-coding matrix indicator (PMI) feedback based on a linear combination (LC) codebook, wherein the PMI comprises a first PMI (i1) and a second PMI (i2), determining the first PMI (i1) and the second PMI (i2) indicating an LC pre-coder that corresponds to a weighted linear combination of a first beam and a second beam, wherein the first PMI (i1) includes a first beam indicator (i1,1, i1,2) and a second beam indicator (i1,3) that indicate the first beam and a distance (d1, d2) of the second beam in accordance with the first beam, respectively; and the second PMI (i2) indicates weights assigned to the first beam and the second beam. The method further comprises transmitting, to the BS, the CSI feedback over an uplink channel including the determined first PMI (i1) and the second PMI (i2).
US10298296B2
A technique for improving wireless communication characteristics involving matching transmitter antenna patterns to receiver antenna patterns. In a specific implementation, the transmitter antenna pattern adapts to changing parameters, such as when a smartphone is initially held in a first orientation and is later held in a second orientation. Because the transmitter antenna pattern matches receiver antenna patterns, signal quality between stations improves. In some implementations, antennas are organized and mounted to maximize spatial diversity to cause peak gains in different directions.
US10298285B2
A semiconductor device includes a plurality of chips, at least one line, and a controller. Each of the chips includes a chip input/output (I/O) pad, a transceiver configured to perform a transmission operation in response to a transmission enable signal or perform a reception operation in response to a reception enable signal, and a switch configured to couple the chip input/output (I/O) pad to the transceiver in response to a switch enable signal. The at least one line is configured to couple the chip input/output (I/O) pads contained in the plurality of chips. The controller generates the transmission enable signal, the reception enable signal, and the switch enable signal in response to a command signal and a chip identifier (ID) signal.
US10298271B2
An apparatus (100) for providing an joint error correction code (140) for a combined data frame (254) comprising first data (112) of a first data channel and second data (122) of a second data channel comprises a first error code generator (110) configured to provide, based on a linear code, information on a first error correction code (114a, 114b) using the first data (112). The apparatus further comprises a second error code generator (120) configured to provide, based on the linear code, information on a second error correction code (124) using the second data (122). The apparatus is configured to provide the joint error correction code (140) using the information on the first error correction code (114a, 114b) and the information on the second error correction code (124).
US10298270B2
A method and an apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals thereof are disclosed. The method for transmitting broadcast signals includes encoding DP data according to a code rate, wherein the encoding further includes LDPC encoding the DP data according to the code rate, bit interleaving the LDPC encoded DP data, mapping the bit interleaved DP data onto constellations, MIMO (Multi Input Multi Output) encoding the mapped DP data, and time interleaving the MIMO encoded DP data; building at least one signal frame by arranging the encoded DP data; and modulating data in the built signal frame by OFDM method and transmitting the broadcast signals having the modulated data, wherein the step of modulating includes inserting CPs in the built signal frame based on a CP set which includes information about locations of CPs, wherein the CP set is defined based on FFT size.
US10298269B2
A bit interleaver, a bit-interleaved coded modulation (BICM) device and a bit interleaving method are disclosed herein. The bit interleaver includes a first memory, a processor, and a second memory. The first memory stores a low-density parity check (LDPC) codeword having a length of 64800 and a code rate of 3/15. The processor generates an interleaved codeword by interleaving the LDPC codeword on a bit group basis. The size of the bit group corresponds to a parallel factor of the LDPC codeword. The second memory provides the interleaved codeword to a modulator for 4096-symbol mapping.
US10298263B2
A data processing system includes a likelihood input operable to receive encoded data, a decoder operable to apply a decoding algorithm to likelihood values for the received encoded data and to yield a decoded output, and a decoder input initialization circuit operable to generate new decoder input values based in part on the likelihood values for the received encoded data after the likelihood values for the received encoded data have failed to converge in the decoder.
US10298262B2
For decoding messages, a decoder exchanges single-bit messages for a data channel between a plurality of M parity nodes and a plurality of N symbol nodes. Each parity node has one or more adjacent symbol nodes with a plurality of edges between the parity node and each adjacent symbol node. An extrinsic decision and an extrinsic parity value are calculated based on a time-varying lookup table. The lookup table stores the locally maximum-likelihood extrinsic decision for a quantized number of data channel states as a function of adjacent extrinsic parity values.
US10298261B2
Decoding logic is provided that is operational upon a data buffer to represent a plurality of variable nodes and a plurality of check nodes. For a respective one of the variable nodes, a vector component is selected from a confidence vector associated with the variable node. Using a respective one of the check nodes, a check node return value is calculated based on one or more other vector components from one or more other vectors and one or more vector indices corresponding to the one or more other vector components. The confidence vector is then updated based on the check node return value and an index for the check node return value, and a current state of a memory cell associated with the respective one of the variable nodes is determined based on a location of a primary one of multiple vector components within the updated confidence vector.
US10298255B2
Ablation probe tips (108, 148, 320, 360) and physical and virtual stents (110) for use in tooth bud ablation procedures that result in tooth agenesis as well as tooth bud ablation methods are described herein.
US10298247B1
This application relates to analog-to-digital converter (ADC) circuitry (200). A time-encoding modulator (TEM 201) has a comparator (104) and a loop filter (105) configured to generate a pulse-width-modulated (PWM) signal (SPWM) in response to an input signal (SIN) and a feedback signal (SFB). A controlled oscillator, such as a VCO (202) receives the PWM signal and generates an output oscillation signal (SOSC) with a frequency that varies based on a drive signal at a drive node (109), e.g. a drive node of a ring oscillator (107). The controlled oscillator (202) comprises at least one control switch (112) controlled by a switch control signal (S1) generated from the received PWM signal so as to control the drive strength of the drive signal applied to the drive node (109). The feedback signal (SFB) for the TEM (201) is derived from the controlled oscillator (202) so as to include any timing error between the PWM signal and the switch control signal (S1) applied to said control switch.
US10298244B2
A frequency synthesizer generates a wide range of frequencies from a single oscillator while achieving good noise performance. A cascaded phase-locked loop (PLL) circuit includes a first PLL circuit with an LC voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) and a second PLL circuit with a ring VCO. A feedforward path from the first PLL circuit to the second PLL circuit provides means and signal path for cancellation of phase noise, thereby reducing or eliminating spur and quantization effects. The frequency synthesizer can directly generate in-phase and quadrature phase output signals. A split-tuned ring-based VCO is controlled via a phase error detection loop to reduce or eliminate phase error between the quadrature signals.
US10298243B2
A system for determining a correction for an output value of a time-to-digital converter within a phase-locked loop is provided. The output value relates to a time difference between an input signal and a reference signal supplied to the time-to-digital converter. The system includes a digitally-controlled oscillator configured to generate a first signal independently from the output signal. The first signal has a first frequency different from an integer multiple of a reference frequency of the reference signal. The system further includes a frequency divider configured to generate the input signal for the time-to-digital converter based on the first signal. The input signal has a second frequency being a fraction of the first frequency. Further, the system includes a processing unit configured to calculate the correction using a distribution of output values of multiple time differences.
US10298242B2
A phase control oscillator includes a voltage control oscillator, a phase comparator, a loop filter, and a storage unit. The loop filter is configured such that if the phase control oscillator starts operating, the loop filter outputs a control voltage based on phase difference information to the voltage control oscillator. The storage unit stores deviation information indicative of a deviation between a phase difference when the loop filter outputs the control voltage in the case where the phase control oscillator starts operating and the phase difference indicated by the phase difference information. After the loop filter outputs the control voltage in response to the phase control oscillator starting operating, the loop filter outputs the control voltage based on the phase difference information output from the phase comparator and the deviation information stored in the storage unit, to the voltage control oscillator.
US10298239B2
A temperature-compensated oscillator includes a resonator element, an oscillating circuit, and a temperature compensation circuit, and a frequency deviation with respect to a frequency at a time point when power supply starts is within a range of ±8 ppb at a time point when 10 seconds elapse from when the power supply starts, within a range of ±10 ppb at a time point when 20 seconds elapse from when the power supply starts, and within a range of ±10 ppb at a time point when 30 seconds elapse from when the power supply starts.
US10298238B2
A driver includes first and second resistors coupled to a supply voltage and coupled to pairs of main transistors at positive and negative output nodes. The first and second pairs of main transistors provide emphasis and de-emphasis on the positive and negative output nodes. The driver also includes a delay inverter, a pull up booster and a pull down booster. The delay inverter delays and inverts each of a pair of differential input signals to provide delayed and inverted differential signals. The pull up booster provides a bypass current path that bypasses the first and second resistors but includes at least some of the first and second pairs of main transistors. The pull down booster provides an additional current path from the supply voltage through the first or second resistor to ground.
US10298236B2
An on-chip aging sensor and associated methods for detecting counterfeit integrated circuits are shown. In one example, the on-chip aging sensor is integrated within a chip. In one example, the on-chip sensor includes both an on-chip age sensor, and an antifuse memory block including static information unique to the chip.
US10298235B2
Embodiments include an integrated clock gating (ICG) cell. The low power ICG cell may include an input condition determination circuit configured to generate a temporary inverted clock signal and an inverted output signal. The low power ICG cell may include an enable control logic circuit configured to receive the temporary inverted clock signal and the inverted output signal from the input condition determination circuit. The low power ICG cell may include a latch circuit coupled to the enable control logic circuit and configured to latch an input value dependent on at least the inverted output signal and the temporary inverted clock signal. The input condition determination circuit is configured to generate the temporary inverted clock signal only when it is needed.
US10298234B2
The invention is a field device with an input unit comprising a first number of switch elements in order to generate first input signals and a second number of magnetically actuatable sensor elements assigned to the switch elements in order to generate second input signals which are OR-linked to the first input signals. Each switch element is assigned to at least two sensor elements, which are arranged and connected such that the respective second input signal is output only when at least two specified sensor elements assigned to a switch element are activated.
US10298233B2
A switching control arrangement, in particular for a motor vehicle, having a movable actuating surface that interacts with a displacement element in such a way that the actuating surface can be moved substantially linearly, over at least one distance, out of an initial position and into an actuating position. The displacement element has at least one elastic element arranged so as to be clamped in place. The actuating position can be designed as a switching position, such that the actuating surface, when in the switching position, has a switching effect on a switching element, a sensor, or the like. The elastic element is designed as a planar element with a small thickness in the form of a membrane, such that it is possible for the elastic element to be elastically deflected substantially perpendicularly to the surface of the membrane.
US10298232B2
The present invention relates to a touch switch of (10) for a control device of an electric and/or electronic apparatus. The touch switch (10) comprises a non conductive layer (14) made of an electrically non-conductive material or material composition, a touch sensor (12) arranged at a bottom side or rear side of the non conductive layer (14), a metallic layer (16) arranged at a top side or front side, respectively, of the non conductive layer (14), and a cut-out (18) formed in the metallic layer (16) and arranged at the non conductive layer (14) opposite to the touch sensor (12). The metallic layer (16) is connected to a ground connection (22). Further, the present invention relates to a control device for an electric and/or electronic apparatus. Moreover, the present invention relates to an electric and/or electronic apparatus, in particular a domestic appliance.
US10298229B2
A switch adapter can include a base having one or more openings, a support coupled to the base, and one or more retainers for coupling a switch to the adapter. The support can have one or more openings between its interior and exterior. The retainer can be adapted to couple to at least one of the base, the support, and a combination thereof. The switch adapter can include one or more switches, such as a replacement switch, and can be adapted for replacing a limit switch with a proximity switch. A proximity switch can be coupled to a switch adapter in one or more positions, and a switch adapter can be adapted to couple with a plurality of different switch mounts. A switch adapter can include a mass compensator for adjusting its center of gravity.
US10298228B2
A multiplexer circuit, of power supply (PS) voltages, includes: selectable finger circuits corresponding to the PS voltages, each selectable finger circuit: having an input node which is finger-circuit-specific and an output node which is common to the finger circuits; being configured to receive a corresponding one of the PS voltages from the input node and, if selected, provide a first version of the corresponding PS voltage to the output node. Each of the selectable finger circuits includes: a non-enhancement mode transistor of a first conductivity (C1) type (C1-type transistor) and enhancement mode first and second transistors of a second conductivity (C2) type (C2-type transistor) connected in series between the input node and the output node.
US10298226B2
A signal transmission device relating to a technique disclosed in the specification of the present application includes: an isolation transformer; an input-side circuit connected to an input side of the isolation transformer; and an output-side circuit connected to an output side of the isolation transformer. The output-side circuit includes a first differential circuit having a first input and a second input connected to the first terminal and the second terminal respectively. A reference potential of the first differential circuit is connected to the second terminal.
US10298225B1
The present disclosure is directed to an electrical system topology designed for use in a portable electronic device. The electrical system uses a conductive housing of the device to form a single main electrical circuit, which consists of forward microelectronics, rearward microelectronics and a battery. Through synchronized main circuit current modulation by the forward and rearward microelectronics, bidirectional communication is established between the forward and rearward sections of the device. The design allows for mechanical simplicity, which aids in product size reduction, increases mechanical robustness, reduces costs and enhances mechanical design flexibility.
US10298218B2
The invention relates to a method and a device for controlling an electrical or electronic switching element that can be activated by an electrical signal, wherein a PWM signal can be produced by a PWM module for controlling the switching element and which can be modulated as a function of the supply voltage and/or of an ambient temperature on the electromechanical or electronic switch.
US10298212B2
A hybrid energy storage system is configured to control pulsed power. A first dynamo-electric machine is coupled to an inertial energy storage device and has multiple input stator windings configured to accept input power from a source. A polyphase output stator winding is configured to deliver electric power having a first response time to a DC bus. A secondary energy storage system is coupled to the DC bus and is configured to convert its stored energy to electric power in a bidirectional manner. A second dynamo-electric machine has an input stator winding and at least one polyphase output stator winding coupled to a converter, the converter coupled to a DC output. A polyphase boost exciter is configured to derive energy from the DC bus and excite the second machine input stator winding, wherein the second machine is configured to be excited at a faster rate than the first response time of the first machine.
US10298208B1
A dynamic impedance system deployable on a current transformer having a core and at least one winding element is provided. The dynamic impedance system includes a voltage reference module and a dynamic impedance module operably connected to one another. The voltage reference module defines a voltage threshold for regulating an output voltage of the current transformer. The dynamic impedance module regulates the output voltage based on the voltage threshold defined by the voltage reference module to maintain flux induced in the current transformer, thereby avoiding core saturation of the current transformer and enhancing accuracy of measurements.
US10298206B2
In order to pass a signal having a wide pass bandwidth with respect to a center frequency of a pass band, a surface acoustic wave device includes a first surface acoustic wave element provided with a first pass band; and a second surface acoustic wave element having a second pass band in a high frequency band compared with the first pass band of the first surface acoustic wave element, in which the first surface acoustic wave element and the second surface acoustic wave element have a common input terminal and a common output terminal, and a frequency of a high frequency side of the first pass band of the first surface acoustic wave element is partially overlapped with a frequency of a low frequency side of the second pass band of the second surface acoustic wave element.
US10298202B2
The invention relates to a BAW resonator with reduced heat build-up. The heat build-up is reduced by a thermal bridge, which dissipates heat from the electro-acoustically active region to a support substrate, without impairing the acoustics of the resonator.
US10298201B2
A bulk acoustic wave resonator may include: an air cavity; an etching stop layer and an etching stop part, which define a lower boundary surface and a side boundary surface of the air cavity; and a resonating part formed on an approximately planar surface, which is formed by a upper boundary surface of the air cavity and a top surface of the etching stop part. A width of a top surface of the etching stop part may be greater than a width of a bottom surface of the etching stop part. A side surface of the etching stop part connecting the top surface of the etching stop part to the bottom surface of the etching stop part may be inclined.
US10298194B2
A technique relates to a superconducting microwave device. A left-handed resonator include at least one unit cell. A non-linear dispersive medium is connected to the left-handed resonator, such that one end of the left-handed resonator is connected to the non-linear dispersive medium and an opposite end of the left-handed resonator is connected to a port. The left-handed resonator and the non-linear dispersive medium are configured to output a quantum signal in a squeezed state.
US10298190B2
A method for phased array tapering includes setting a gain at a phase-invariant variable gain amplifier in each of a plurality of front-ends of a phased array transceiver to perform tapering of beam pattern side lobes. A resistance in the phase-invariant variable gain amplifier is set to provide a phase shift that is independent of gain.
US10298182B1
A radio frequency amplifier comprises a transistor, a transformer and a variable capacitor. The transistor has an input terminal, an output terminal and a control terminal. The transformer has a first coil conductor and a second coil conductor. The first coil conductor magnetically couples to the second coil conductor. The second coil conductor connects to the control terminal. The first coil conductor connects to the input terminal. The variable capacitor connects in parallel with the second coil conductor. An integrated circuit using the radio frequency amplifier is also introduced.
US10298181B2
Strength of a signal received by a low-noise amplifier is controlled depending on strength of a reception signal emitted to a communication satellite by a mobile terminal. A low-noise amplification device provided in the communication satellite comprises: a variable-power attenuation unit which generates an attenuation signal by attenuating the reception signal received in the communication satellite; a low-noise amplification unit which generates an amplification signal by amplifying the attenuation signal with low noise; and a signal control unit which outputs a control signal to the variable-power attenuation unit depending on the attenuation signal, and then adjusts an attenuation of the variable-power attenuation unit.
US10298180B2
This application provides a control circuit, a control method, and an electronic device the control circuit comprising: a first control sub-circuit configured to receive a first power supply signal from a first power supply sub-circuit in an electronic device that includes the control circuit and output a first control signal; a second control sub-circuit configured to receive a second power supply signal from a second power supply sub-circuit in the electronic device and output a second control signal under control of the first control signal, wherein the second control signal is used to control a functional sub-circuit in the electronic device to be disabled during power-on and power-off process of the electronic device.
US10298179B2
An amplifier arrangement has an input transistor being connected between reference potential terminals by a current source and a current sink. An amplifier stage has an amplifier output coupled to a first connection node between the current sink and a first terminal of the input transistor by means of a feedback path, and an amplifier input connected to a second connection node between the current source and the second terminal of the input transistor. A level-shifting structure has a level-shifting element with one end connected to a reference connection, wherein the level-shifting element is adapted to perform a level-shifting of a potential at the second connection node with respect to a potential at the reference connection. The reference connection is coupled to one of the following: the amplifier output, the first connection node, a control terminal of the input transistor.
US10298175B2
A circuit device includes an oscillation signal generation circuit that generates an oscillation signal having an oscillation frequency using a resonator, the oscillation frequency being a frequency set by using frequency control data, and a processor configured to perform a signal process on input frequency control data based on a phase comparison result between an input signal based on the oscillation signal and a reference signal. The processor is configured to estimate a true value for an observed value of the frequency control data based on the phase comparison result through a Kalman filter process in a period before a hold-over state is detected, and generate aging-corrected frequency control data, in a case where the hold-over state is detected, by holding the true value at a timing corresponding to a timing of detecting the hold-over state, and by performing a calculation based on the true value.
US10298169B2
Bonding clip used to electrically bond metal rails forming frameworks are provided. The bonding clip includes an electrically conductive back pad having a plurality of arms extending from the back pad. Each arm has one or more penetrating projections extending into a receiving zone between the arms. The arms have a lead-in at a free end. The lead-in has one or more penetrating projections extending away from the receiving zone.
US10298163B2
A haptic system with a haptic actuator and a voltage sensor coupled to the haptic actuator, to sense a voltage across the haptic actuator. The voltage across the haptic actuator has a back electromotive force component. There is a current regulator coupled to the haptic actuator and to the voltage sensor. The current regulator is adapted to provide a current signal to drive the haptic actuator and to adjust the current signal based on the back electromotive force component. For example, the voltage across the haptic actuator may be a direct voltage or a representation of the voltage such as a filtered value of the voltage.
US10298162B2
Disclosed is a brushless-motor drive apparatus provided with: a current detecting means (6) for detecting currents flowing through armature windings (9) during periods when switching elements (5H, 5L) of a drive circuit are ON; a calculation processing means for comparing a target current value and the detected current value, and calculating voltage command values to be applied to the armature windings (9); and a PWM driving means (4) for controlling the ON/OFF of the switching elements on the basis of the voltage command values. The calculation processing means is further provided with a current-detection possibility evaluating means for evaluating whether or not the currents flowing through the armature windings (9) can be detected, with the operating states of the switching elements of each of the phases, and when the current-detection possibility evaluating means evaluates that the currents cannot be detected, the calculation processing means obtains the voltage command values using the current values detected when the currents are able to be detected, and continues the motor drive.
US10298161B2
Systems and methods for controlling a generator set are disclosed herein. The method includes determining a state of local modes selectable via a local interface proximate to the generator set. The local modes include a local standby mode and a local remote enabled mode. The method also includes determining a state of a plurality of remote modes using a command from a device remote from the location of the generator set in response to determining the remote enabled mode is active. The method includes, in response to determining the local standby mode is active, the remote enabled mode is active, and one of the remote modes is active, determining whether to activate or stop the generator set based on the active remote mode and disabling the local standby mode from controlling activation of the generator set.
US10298159B2
A method includes selectively communicating each of a plurality of motor winding signals to a first node at an integrated circuit based on whether the corresponding motor winding is energized. A zero-crossing event at an unenergized motor winding signal is determined based the unenergized motor winding signal and based on a signal at the first node.
US10298154B2
Unique systems, methods, techniques and apparatuses of a synchronous reluctance machine (SynRM) control are disclosed. One exemplary embodiment is a control device structured to operate a converter coupled to a synchronous reluctance machine and receive measurements of current. The device comprises a converter controller structured to detect a power supply restoration, operate the converter so as to transmit a series voltage vectors relative to the stationary reference frame to the stator of the synchronous reluctance machine, receive current measurements following the transmission of each of the voltage vectors, estimate the rotor position using the characteristics of the voltage vector and the received current measurements corresponding to at least one voltage vector, estimate the rotor speed using the characteristics of the voltage vectors and the received current measurements corresponding to at least two voltage vectors, and operate the converter so as to apply voltage to the stator.
US10298146B2
A method of controlling the stability of a power converter in a closed-loop control system. The method includes inputting a variable to be controlled such as an output voltage of the power converter to a compensator or mathematical function for processing; determining, using the compensator, an error signal representative of a difference between the output voltage and a reference voltage; evaluating an energy content in a short-time Fourier transform spectrogram of the error signal from the compensator and/or evaluating the sinusoidality shape of the error signal; updating a transfer function of the compensator and other system parameters in accordance with the energy content or sinusoidality.
US10298137B2
A method for frequency reduction of a quasi-resonant (QR) converter includes detecting a valley point of a resonant waveform of the QR converter, by detecting a voltage level of the resonant waveform falling below a first threshold voltage. A blanking time is formed from the beginning of a QR conversion cycle to the valley point. The blanking time is extended in response to a first reduction of an output loading of the QR converter, while maintaining a primary current of the QR converter at a first current level. The primary current is reduced to a second current level being less than the first current level, while maintaining the blanking time at a maximum blanking time, in response to a second reduction of the output loading.
US10298128B2
In accordance with presently disclosed embodiments, a 5-switch power conversion circuit that improves the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of a DC-DC converter with a double chopper topology is provided. The power conversion circuit adds minimal complexity through an additional switch, while preserving the benefits of a 3-level boost converter topology. The disclosed power conversion circuit uses four switches that are arranged in a 3-level boost converter arrangement, and a fifth switch that is connected in parallel with two of the other switches. The fifth switch helps to reduce the conduction power losses through the DC-DC converter by providing a one-switch ON-state conduction path instead of a two-switch path during part of the DC-DC power conversion cycle.
US10298113B2
A filter for a power converter provided in-line with at least one live line of a power network. The filter has an input section with an input inductance provided at an input of the power converter and an output section with an output inductance provided at an output of the power converter. A neutral inductance provided between the power converter and a neutral line of the power network such that the neutral inductance is not in-line with the neutral line of the power network. The neutral inductance is shared by the input section and the output section.
US10298110B2
A switched mode power converter has an energy transfer element that delivers an output signal to a load. A power switching device coupled to the primary side of the energy transfer element regulates a transfer of energy to the load. A secondary controller is coupled to receive a feedback signal and output a pulsed signal in response thereto. A primary controller is coupled to receive the pulsed signal and output a drive signal in response thereto, the drive signal being coupled to control switching of the power switching device. A compensation circuit generates an adaptively compensated signal synchronous with the pulsed signal. The adaptively compensated signal has a parameter that is adaptively adjusted in response to a comparison of the feedback signal with a threshold reference signal. The parameter converges towards a final value that produces a desired level of the output signal.
US10298108B2
A linear motor (15) comprising a stator (16) having an opening (18), a mover (19) disposed in the opening and configured and arranged to reciprocate linearly in an axial direction (x-x) relative to the stator, the stator comprising a first pole section (21) and a second pole section (22) stacked in the axial direction and forming a recess (26) between them for receiving annular windings, the first pole section comprising a first laminate (17a) having a first cross-sectional geometry (29) and a second laminate (17b) having a second cross-sectional geometry (30) different from the first cross-sectional geometry, and the first laminate and the second laminate stacked in the axial direction.
US10298103B2
A manufacturing method of a laminated core includes forming a first blanking member by blanking a band-shaped metal plate along a predetermined first blanking shape and forming a second blanking member by blanking the metal plate along a predetermined second blanking shape. The first blanking shape has a first-yoke corresponding region corresponding to a first yoke portion and a plurality of first-teeth corresponding regions corresponding to a plurality of first teeth portions. The second blanking shape has a second-yoke corresponding region corresponding to a second yoke portion and a plurality of second-teeth corresponding regions corresponding to a plurality of second teeth portions. The plurality of second-teeth corresponding regions are located between the plurality of first-teeth corresponding regions in a width direction one by one. The second teeth-corresponding region is located closer to one first-teeth corresponding region than a virtual straight line.
US10298101B2
A method and a device for engendering rotation of a rotor relative to a stator. Stator teeth may comprise a mutually coupled coil winding pair, and a driver circuit may drive current through a first coil winding of the mutually coupled coil winding pair to generate a current on a second coil winding of the mutually coupled coil winding pair. The driver circuit may drive charge through the second coil winding to apply a torque to a rotor tooth. The driver circuit may also recapture and store charge to drive through the second coil winding.
US10298096B2
An electric motor includes a shaft extending along an axial direction, a stator, a rotor arranged farther away from the shaft than the stator in a radial direction of the shaft, a stator fixing part fixed to the shaft and fixed to the stator, and a rotor fixing part facing the stator fixing part and the stator with an air gap formed between in the axial direction. The rotor fixing part is rotatably coupled to the shaft and fixed to the rotor. A rotor hole is formed in the rotor fixing part. The rotor hole passes through the rotor fixing part to be communicated with the air gap. A stator hole is formed in the stator fixing part. The stator hole passes through the stator fixing part to be communicated with the rotor hole with the air gap formed between.
US10298080B2
A support rib for securing a rotor pole to a flange in a gearless drive is described. The support rib is undivided and passes through an opening of the flange. The support rib can be joined with the flange and/or the rotor pole using an adhesive. The rib preferably has at least one notch that engages an edge of the flange opening to establish mechanical connection between the rib and flange. An insert with two ends that slideably engages a rib edge and rotor pole channel can be used to couple the rib to the rotor pole.
US10298073B2
The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for controlling the wireless induction power supply. The apparatus comprises a transmitter control circuit and a receiver control circuit. The method comprises generating a plurality of switching signals for switching a transmitter winding and generating a power; detecting a level of a transmitter signal from the transmitter winding; and controlling a switch to deliver the power from a receiver winding to a load. The receiver winding is coupled to receive the power from the transmitter winding. The switching signals will be disabled if the level of the transmitter signal is not higher than a threshold over a first period or the level of the transmitter signal is higher than a high-threshold over a second period. Accordingly, the method and the apparatus according to the present invention have the foreign object detection (FOD) function for the safety.
US10298072B2
A defibrillator for wireless transmission of power and status information, the defibrillator including a housing, a battery, and a processor and memory. The processor configured to periodically power up the defibrillator and execute self-tests to generate status information regarding the self-tests. The defibrillator further include an interface module embedded within the housing and configured to receive the status information regarding the self-tests. The defibrillator also includes a first transceiver configured to receive power from a second transceiver and send the status information to the second transceiver while the first transceiver is within range of the second transceiver. The defibrillator further including a capacitor configured to receive the power from the at least one first transceiver and provide power to the interface module without requiring power from the battery.
US10298064B2
A power receiving unit of the disclosure includes: a power generation section configured to generate direct-current power, based on a power signal supplied wirelessly from a power feeding unit; and a communication section configured to set a load of the power signal in accordance with an output current of the power generation section, and to communicate with the power feeding unit by modulating the load.
US10298062B2
A wireless power transmission apparatus includes resonators configured to transmit a power wirelessly to another resonator, and a controller configured to control a current magnitude and/or a voltage magnitude of a power to be provided to each of the resonators. The apparatus further includes a feeder configured to provide the power to each of the resonators.
US10298061B2
A vehicle including a wireless vehicle recharging system which includes a receiver coupled to the vehicle and configured to receive electrical power through electromagnetic induction from a transmitter, an alignment system including a controller configured to autonomously align the receiver with the transmitter, and a first sensor configured to provide a first signal to the controller. The controller uses the first signal from the first sensor to control a position of the vehicle to align the receiver with the transmitter.
US10298060B2
An apparatus and method of wirelessly powering an aerospace vehicle while the vehicle is on the ground is provided to solve a problem of supplying electric power for aircraft while idling on taxiways. Present systems typically require fuel-driven auxiliary power units (APU's) to generate electricity. Running APU's to power aircraft while idling requires over 443 million gallons of jet fuel annually at a cost of $1.3 billion dollars. This results in an estimated 4.7 megatons of carbon dioxide emissions annually. At the gate, shore power is provided via hardline connection.
US10298058B2
A capacitive wireless power transfer (WPT) architecture that provides for dynamic (i.e., in motion) and/or stationary power transfer is provided. In various implementations, for example, the capacitive WPT architecture can achieve high power transfer levels at high efficiencies while maintaining fringing field strengths within acceptable safety limits. In one implementation, for example, a multi-module capacitive wireless power transfer system provides a capacitive charging system, such as for, but not limited to, charging electric vehicles (EV). In another implementation, a capacitive wireless power transfer module is provided. The module, for example, comprises a plurality of first coupling plates adapted to be coupled to a power source via an inverter; a plurality of second coupling plates adapted to be coupled to a load and to the plurality of first coupling plates for receiving wireless power and a matching network adapted to provide reactive compensation and gain.
US10298055B1
A device may include a power supply module (PSM). The PSM may receive information regarding one or more programmable restrictions associated with a power supply. The PSM may receive a measurement of voltage associated with the power supply. The PSM may determine a current associated with the power supply based on the one or more programmable restrictions, the measurement of voltage, and a first amount of power associated with the power supply. The PSM may cause a load associated with the power supply to be adjusted based on determining the current without removing power for a connection between the power supply and a power source associated with the power supply. The PSM may cause the power supply to provide a second amount of power based on causing the load associated with the power supply to be adjusted.
US10298050B2
A power feeder is provided that comprises a power output signal generator, and a controller. The power output signal generator generates a plurality of power output signals of different strengths. The controller performs an increasing or decreasing control to increase or decrease at least one of the strengths of the power output signals based on the strengths of the power output signals at which an electronic device has been detected.
US10298045B2
A method of controlling an electronic device is provided which includes electrically connecting a battery with an external power source using a first switch such that a first portion of a first current supplied from the external power source is supplied to a system circuit of the electronic device and a second portion of the first current is supplied to the battery, determining whether a specified condition is satisfied, electrically disconnecting the battery from the external power source using the first switch and electrically connecting the battery with a resistor using a second switch, if the specified condition is satisfied, verifying an electrical characteristic of a current applied to the resistor while the battery is electrically disconnected from the external power source and is electrically connected with the resistor, and determining whether an operation of the battery is abnormal, based at least on a part of the electrical characteristic.
US10298038B2
A circuit for use with an external power source and at least one load. The circuit includes a Hydro-Pyroelectrodynamic (“H-PED”) storage/capture device (“SCD”), a plurality of contacts, and a recharging device. The H-PED SCD stores electrical energy and is configured to discharge power to at least one output contact of the plurality of contacts. The plurality of contacts also include an input contact configured to be connected to the external power source. The recharging device is configured to be powered by the external power source when the external power source is connected to the input contact and supplies power thereto. The recharging device is operable to charge the H-PED SCD when powered by the external power source. The recharging device may be an infrared light emitting diode configured to generate incident infrared radiation operable to charge the H-PED SCD.
US10298037B2
Embodiments describe a charging component for an electronic device that includes an interface surface comprising a portion of an external surface of a housing of the electronic device; a plurality of contacts positioned at the interface surface and exposed for making contact with contacts of a connector; one or more sensors for detecting a separation event; an inductor coil positioned proximate to the interface surface, wherein a central axis of the inductor coil is perpendicular to at least a portion of the interface surface; and a processor coupled to the inductor coil and the one or more sensors, wherein the processor is configured to change an operation of the inductor coil based at least in part on a measurement from the one or more sensors.
US10298029B2
A battery pack for providing different power sources may include: a low voltage battery configured to supply a first voltage; a high voltage battery configured to supply a second voltage, the second voltage being higher than the first voltage; a charging circuit configured to charge the low voltage battery using the high voltage battery; and/or a controller configured to control the charging circuit to charge the low voltage battery when a charge state of the low voltage battery is less than a desired charge state.
US10298027B2
The method is disclosed of controlling a switch circuit which includes a first switching unit configured to switch between energy accumulation and energy release in a coil, and second switching units configured to connect or disconnect a plurality of corresponding storage batteries with the coil. The method comprises a first step of performing an operation to switch on the first switching unit and to switch off the second switching units; and a second step of performing an operation to switch off the first switching unit and to switch on only one of the second switching units.
US10298025B2
A power supply apparatus includes a power supply unit that wirelessly supplies power to an electronic apparatus, a communication unit that communicates with the electronic apparatus, and a control unit that controls, based on whether information regarding the electronic apparatus that is received from the electronic apparatus is updated by the electronic apparatus, power to be supplied from the power supply apparatus to the electronic apparatus.
US10298022B2
A power supply control system includes: a current sensor as a first detector detecting current flowing in each controller in an operating state of each controller; a first current controller turned on to supply a driving current to each controller in the operating state of each controller and turned off to disconnect the driving current supply to each controller based on a determination result; a second current controller turned on to supply a dark current to each controller in a power-saving state of each controller and turned off to disconnect the dark current supply to each controller in the operation state of each controller; a dark current sensor as a second detector detecting a voltage drop amount in the power-saving state of each controller; and an anomaly determinator determining existence of anomaly in the power-saving state of each controller based on a detection result obtained from the second detector.
US10298021B2
A power balance-dependent operating parameter and a surroundings parameter of a first energy source, such as a renewable energy source, are provided. A variable target operating parameter for the first energy source is ascertained dependent on the detected surroundings parameter. The target operating parameter can characterize a first energy source state in which a maximally possible output would be generated under the current given conditions of the surroundings. The operating frequency is then controlled dependent on the detected power balance dependent operating parameter and the ascertained target operating parameter such that a deviation of the operating frequency from a specified frequency is coupled to a deviation of the detected power balance-dependent operating parameter from the ascertained target operating parameter.
US10298018B2
A power control apparatus includes a plurality of transformers configured to transform power generated by a plurality of solar cell strings, and a controller configured to control the transformers. The transformers each include a diode configured to prevent a reverse flow of power to be output from the transformer itself and a switch configured to open or close a connection between the solar cell string and an inverter. When a diode of one of the transformers has failed to prevent the reverse flow of the power to be output from the one of the transformers, the controller first opens the switches of all of the transformers and then closes the switches of the transformers other than the switch of the one of the transformers.
US10298011B2
An electric storage apparatus includes an electric storage device and a protective circuit for cutting off a power path when detecting abnormality including overcharge, the protective circuit being connected to an outside connecting terminal, to which a power generator and an outside load operated by electric power from the electric storage apparatus are connected. The protective circuit includes a charging or discharging path connecting the electric storage device to the outside connecting terminal, a potential difference measuring unit for measuring a potential difference at two points on the charging or discharging path, the two points on the charging or discharging path being located between a positive electrode of the electric storage device and the outside connecting terminal, a self-holding switch disposed between the two points on the charging or discharging path, and a current measuring unit for measuring a current.
US10298006B2
An energy storage system and method of driving the same are disclosed. In one aspect, the energy storage system comprises a battery system, a direct current (DC) contactor, first and second power supply units, and a first switch. The battery system includes at least one battery rack and at least one rack battery management system (BMS). The DC contactor is located between the battery system and a power conversion system. The first power supply unit is configured to be electrically connected to the DC contactor. The second power supply unit electrically connected to the rack BMS. The first switch is electrically connected to the rack BMS, wherein the rack BMS is configured to electrically disconnect the DC contactor from the first power supply unit when the first switch is turned on.
US10298005B2
An electrical penetrator assembly is shown, configured to feed electrical voltage and current through a wall separating a first volume and a second volume, which may have different pressure and/or may be filled with different fluids. The connector comprises a wall or partition having a through opening. An electrical conductor surrounded by a tubular insulator body passes the opening through the wall. A conductive or semi-conductive coating is arranged on the exterior of the insulator body, the coating surrounding the insulator body for a portion of its length, the coating in electrical contact with the wall, wherein the coated portion of the insulator body is shaped to displace the electric field around the conductor away from the wall and reduce the electric field strength around the insulator body by increasing the electric field strength inside the insulator body.
US10298000B2
A door hole seal is provided between an inner panel and a door trim of an automobile door. The door hole seal comprises a slit mechanism used to pull out a wire harness from an outer-cabin side to an inner-cabin side or from the inner-cabin side to the outer-cabin side. The slit mechanism comprises a first slit extending up and down with respect to the main sheet and a circular hole formed at a lower end of the first slit. The circular hole has a diameter that is identical to or slightly smaller than that of a wire harness, and is arranged to receive the wire harness.
US10297994B2
A substrate holding structure includes holding units and protrusions. The holding units are provided to a casing that includes an accommodating unit accommodating therein an inserted substrate, and hold an end part of the substrate accommodated in the accommodating unit on the insertion direction-entrance side of the substrate. The protrusions protrude from side wall surfaces that are wall surfaces of the casing along the insertion direction of the substrate, the wall surfaces being opposed to the side surfaces of the substrate, and are plastically deformed due to contact with the substrate to be inserted into the accommodating unit.
US10297991B2
A cable armour stripping unit is provided, including a frame configured to accommodate a transmission cable having a plurality of armoured outer layers arranged about an inner sheath enclosing a plurality of conductors and to hold a cutter arrangement including at least one cutting tool arranged to cut into an armoured outer layer of the cable; a vertical feed arrangement configured to effect a translation of the frame relative to the cable, and a rotation arrangement configured to effect a rotation of the frame relative to the cable. A method of stripping armour from a transmission cable is also provided.
US10297986B2
An arc-resistant electrical enclosure includes an arresting system that permits forced-air cooling of the interior region to occur during ordinary operation of the enclosure while resisting the flow of hot gases, plasma, and flames to the exterior of the electrical enclosure in an arc event or other event. The arresting system advantageously includes a louver apparatus and a cover apparatus that work in conjunction to resist the flow of gases, plasma, and flames to the exterior of the cabinet in an arc event. The louver apparatus includes louvers that can be moved from an open state to a closed state responsive to a predetermined fluid pressure impinging on the louvers. The cover apparatus includes a fire blocking panel that permits fluid flow therethrough during ordinary operation but which, responsive to a flame, initiates a transformation from one state to another state wherein the openings resist the communication of flames therethrough.
US10297985B2
An electrical distribution apparatus has a bus bar assembly, a protective shroud, and electrical devices mounted therein. The electrical devices have a main housing, a line side housing for line side connectors and jaws, a securement portion for mounting the electrical device in a back pan of the electrical distribution apparatus. A method for mounting the electrical device in the electrical distribution apparatus is provided. A method for forming the line side connector assembly and installing the line side connector assembly to the main housing of the electrical device is also provided.
US10297984B2
The present disclosure is directed to ion generators and their enclosures that include a base, a non-linear wall projecting from the base, a top connected to the non-linear wall a top connected to the non-linear wall, wherein the base, the non-linear wall and the top form a closed space, and at least one ionizing element extending from the enclosure, wherein the at least one ionizing element is configured to receive a voltage capable of producing ions from a power source in the closed space.
US10297983B2
A spark plug has an electrode including a base portion and a tip joined to a specific surface that is a specific outer surface of the base portion, the tip forming a spark discharge surface. Respective relative positions of a plurality of points on an outer surface of a target portion of the electrode including the base portion and the tip joined to the base portion, which is a portion including at least a portion of the specific surface of the base portion and the tip, are identified to generate three-dimensional coordinate data representing the three-dimensional shape of the target portion. The coordinate data is analyzed to determine whether the target portion of the electrode includes a predetermined unintentional portion that is an unintended portion. An electrode including the unintentional portion is excluded from objects to be manufactured, and an electrode not including the unintentional portion is used to assemble the spark plug.
US10297981B2
The disclosed embodiments relate to the design of a hybrid laser comprising a shared ring mirror coupled to a pair of buses by a 3 dB coupler (also referred to as a “symmetric splitter”), which is described in more detail below. Each bus is also coupled to an array of ring filters, wherein each ring filter couples an associated reflective silicon optical amplifier (RSOA) to the shared ring mirror and in doing so forms a Verniered ring pair with the shared ring mirror. The resulting system provides a comb source with redundant channels that can provide individual outputs or a shared output. This hybrid laser provides a significant improvement over existing comb-based lasers by providing redundancy for at least one laser channel.
US10297977B1
A laser illumination or dazzler device and method. More specifically, examples of the present invention provide laser illumination or dazzling devices power by one or more violet, blue, or green laser diodes characterized by a wavelength from about 390 nm to about 550 nm. In some examples the laser illumination or dazzling devices include a laser pumped phosphor wherein a laser beam with a first wavelength excites a phosphor member to emit electromagnetic at a second wavelength. In various examples, laser illumination or dazzling devices according to the present invention include polar, non-polar, or semi-polar laser diodes. In a specific example, a single laser illumination or dazzling device includes a plurality of violet, blue, or green laser diodes. There are other examples as well.
US10297974B2
A method of generating laser pulses (1) includes: creating a circulating light field in resonator device (11) having resonator length L and an intra-cavity dispersion and configured for supporting light field resonator modes, and generating a pulse train of laser pulses (1) by a mode-locking mechanism. Laser pulses (1) are generated with a repetition frequency and provide a frequency comb with carrier frequency ωo and comb modes in frequency space. The intra-cavity dispersion is selected such that round trip phases ϕ have a dependency on frequency ω according to ϕ ( ω ) = π m ( 1 + 4 ω - ω 0 m ω r - 1 ) + L c ω 0 wherein m is an integer providing effective repetition rate (mωr) in combination with mode spacing ωr at optical carrier frequency (ωo), and the mode-locking mechanism provides a coupling of the resonator modes whereby frequency difference (Δn=ωn+1−ωn) between neighboring mode frequencies (ωn, ωn+1) is a linear function of mode frequency number n. Furthermore, a spectroscopy method for investigating a sample, a laser pulse source apparatus and a spectroscopy apparatus are described.
US10297971B2
A multi-stage optical amplifier has an input port for receiving an optical signal and a relatively short erbium doped optical fiber is coupled to the input port. Complex costly pump feedback is not required as a constant non-varying saturation pump is configured to provide non varying output power pump light of a predetermined wavelength suitable for excitation and full saturation of the erbium ions such that a full population inversion occurs. The length of the short erbium doped fiber and rare earth doping concentration of the erbium doped fiber is such that when pumped by said pump provides amplification of the optical signal of less than 15 dB. Locating a gain flattening filter after the short erbium doped optical fiber provides a relatively flat amplified output signal. Multi-stages of similar short erbium doped fibers pumped and saturated by the same pump signal economically provide increased amplification of the signal and filters after each state flatten the gain.
US10297967B2
A socket module of a rotatable socket device includes a first conductor, a second conductor, an insulator that is arranged to separate the first conductor from the second conductor, and a plurality of terminal sets. The first conductor includes a first base and a plurality of central rods connected to the first base. The second conductor includes a second base and a plurality of tubes connected to the second base. The tubes are respectively sleeved around the central rods. Each of the central rods and the corresponding tube are separated from each other by the insulator. The terminal sets are respectively rotatable along the central rods within a range of 360 degrees. Each of the terminal sets includes a first terminal rotatably contacting the corresponding central rod and a second terminal rotatably contacting the tube that is sleeved around the corresponding central rod.
US10297959B2
An electrical cord having improved safety features comprises a plug having a body portion surrounding respective ends of first, second, and third electrical wires. A live receptacle is in electrical communication with the end of the first electrical wire. A neutral receptacle is in electrical communication with the end of the second electrical wire. A ground receptacle is in electrical communication with the end of the third electrical wire. The body portion surrounds and maintains the live, neutral, and ground receptacles in spaced apart orientation corresponding to blades on an electrical plug. An indicator is provided to indicate a state of the plug in which electricity is supplied to the plug in a proper polarity.
US10297953B1
Apparatus and methods for electrically grounding a support surface includes an at least partially perforated, electrically-conductive cover configured to extend at least partially across the top of the support surface and be electrically grounded to the earth.
US10297951B2
A connector (100) is provided. The connector (100) includes a connector body (110) with a connector axis (X), the connector body (110) being comprised of an interface (112) at a first distal end (110a) of the connector body (110), an opening (114) at a second distal end (110b) of the connector body (110), and a conduit (116) extending from the interface (112) to the opening (114) along the connector axis (X). The connector (100) also includes a latch (120) that moves relative to the connector body (110) to selectively engage a plug connector (200), the latch (120) being comprised of a pivot end (122) coupled to the connector body (110), a manually operable end (124), and a latching feature (126) disposed between the pivot end (122) and the manually operable end (124).
US10297950B2
Disclosed is a magnetic connector comprising a body having a mounting cavity, the body comprising a PCB received in the mounting cavity, a first conductive terminal soldered to one side of the PCB and extending toward an opening of the mounting cavity, a first magnet disposed along the periphery of the PCB and on the same side as the first conductive terminal. The body further has a first anti-off device which is formed with an insulating bushing enclosing the first conductive terminal or the first magnet. The magnetic connector provided by the present invention has advantages that the connection is more stable and more durable, that the service life is longer, and that a certain degree of solid connection can be maintained even if a part of the anti-off device has failed, which is of a good fault tolerance.
US10297942B1
A grounding connector connectable to first and second electrical conductors includes a first body member and a second body member, each of the first and second body members connectable together to form a plurality of passages therebetween. One of the first or second body members further includes one of a locking channel or a locking tab and the other of the first or second body members further includes the other of a locking channel or a locking tab. The locking tab is disposed in the locking channel when the first and second body members are assembled together.
US10297940B2
A terminal (10) includes a rectangular tubular box (20) that is open in a front-rear direction. The box (20) includes a bottom wall (30), first and second side walls (40,50) rising from sides (31) of the bottom wall (30), a ceiling wall (60) extending from an upper edge (41) of the first side wall (40) toward the second wall (50) and an outer wall (70) extending from an upper end(51) of the second side wall (50) toward the first side wall (40) along an upper surface of the ceiling wall (60). A holding piece (74F) projects on an extending end part (73F) of the outer wall (70). A holding recess (45F) is provided on an upper end part of the first side wall (40) and receives the holding piece (74F) so that a part of the holding piece (74F) is located inside the box (20).
US10297935B2
The invention discloses a circuit board output structure, which includes a power output section disposed on a circuit board and at least one metal connection stand electrically connected to the power output section. Each metal connection stand includes a first connection piece showing an included angle with respect to the circuit board. A plurality of connection holes for electrically connecting output wires are formed on the first connection piece. When it is required to change an output specification, the replacement can be more simple and convenient since the metal connection stand may be directly replaced without replacing the whole circuit board. Because the first connection piece has the included angle specified with respect to the circuit board, R angle and stress of the inserted output wires may be reduced to prevent the output wires from damage, detaching from the circuit board or having poor electrical contact after the assembly.
US10297933B2
A wire plug-in aid sleeve structure for wire connection terminal is assembled in a wire plug-in hole of the terminal. The aid sleeve includes a head section, a belly section connected with the head section and a tail section connected with the belly section. The head section, the belly section and the tail section together define a guide hole for the conductive wire to plug in. The tail section has a first side and a second side positioned on a peripheral section of the guide hole. After the conductive wire passes through the guide hole into the terminal, the metal leaf spring disposed in the terminal is facilitated to press the conductive wire toward the first side or second side.
US10297926B2
The radar transceiver assembly configured to reduce ghost lobes and narrow the receive beams so as to provide a better image resolution relative to current radar transceiver assemblies is provided. The radar transceiver assembly includes a first transceiver chip and a second transceiver chip mounted on opposite sides of the substrate. The accordingly, space on the first support surface may be utilized for antennas. The first array of transmit antennas and first array of receive antennas is interleaved with the second array of transmit antennas and the second array of receive antennas. The second array of transmit antennas and the second array of receive antennas are electrically coupled to the second transceiver chip via a coupling structure.
US10297925B2
A semiconductor device includes an active device. The semiconductor device further includes a plurality of antenna grounds electrically connected to the active device. The semiconductor device further includes a plurality of patch antennas, wherein each patch antenna of the plurality of patch antennas is over a corresponding antenna ground of the plurality of antenna grounds. The semiconductor device further includes a plurality of reflectors, wherein each antenna ground of the plurality of antenna ground is between a corresponding patch antenna of the plurality of patch antennas and a corresponding reflector of the plurality of reflectors. An area of each antenna ground of the plurality of antenna grounds is greater than an area of each reflector of the plurality of reflectors.
US10297923B2
Disclosed is a switchable transmit and receive phased array antenna (“STRPAA”). As an example, the STRPAA may include a housing, a multilayer printed wiring board (“MLPWB”) within the housing having a top surface and a bottom surface, a plurality of radiating elements located on the top surface of the MLPWB, and a plurality of transmit and receive (“T/R”) modules attached to the bottom surface of the MLPWB. The STRPAA may also include a plurality of vias, wherein each via, of the plurality of vias, passes through the MLPWB and is configured as a signal path between a T/R module, of the plurality of T/R modules, on the bottom surface of the MLPWB and a radiating element, of the plurality of radiating elements, located on the top surface of the MLPWB opposite the T/R module.
US10297917B2
The present invention is a dual Ka-band, compact, high efficiency CP antenna cluster with dual band compact diplexers-polarizers that can be used as a basic building block for mobile satellite antenna arrays that require minimal dimensions and high efficiency.
US10297905B2
A mobile device includes a ground element, a first radiation element, a second radiation element, a matching circuit, and a first metal frame. The first radiation element is coupled to a first grounding point on the ground element. The second radiation element is coupled through the matching circuit to a second grounding point on the ground element. A first coupling gap is formed between the second radiation element and the first radiation element. The first metal frame is coupled to a connection point on the first radiation element. A second coupling gap is formed between the second radiation element and the first metal frame. An antenna structure is formed by the first radiation element, the second radiation element, the matching circuit, and the first metal frame. A signal source is coupled to a feeding point on the first radiation element, so as to excite the antenna structure.
US10297901B2
A wireless terminal is disclosed. The wireless terminal includes a first antenna, a second antenna, a printed circuit board, a bracket, and a resonator, where the first antenna is located at one side of the printed circuit board, the second antenna is located at another side of the printed circuit board, the printed circuit board functions as a metal ground of the first antenna and the second antenna, the resonator is located on the bracket, a ground point of the resonator is located on the printed circuit board, and a clearance exists between the resonator and the printed circuit board, the bracket is plastic bracket.
US10297898B2
Electronic device with antenna integrated connector shroud for wireless communication of diagnostics
The subject matter disclosed herein describes integrating an antenna with a connector shroud of an electronic device used for conducting diagnostics. By integrating the antenna with the connector shroud, the device can be made smaller while still allowing for effective communication of results wirelessly to a remote system. In implementations such as On-board Diagnostics (OBD) II for motor vehicles, this may allow the device to remain present in the vehicle, conveniently while driving, for continuous monitoring and diagnostic feedback to a remote system, by consuming the least amount of space which may be needed by the driver.
US10297897B2
A glass antenna arranged on a vehicle window glass includes a slot antenna formed by cutting out a conductive film; and a power supply unit configured to supply power to the slot antenna. The slot antenna includes a first slot extending in a first direction; a second slot connected to one end of the first slot, and extending in a second direction, a first wide-width slot connected to the other end of the first slot directly or via a first connection slot, and having a slot width greater than that of the first slot, and a second wide-width slot connected to a terminal end portion of the second slot directly or via a second connection slot, and having a slot width greater than that of the second slot. The power supply unit is arranged so as to straddle the first slot.
US10297896B2
The invention relates to a three-dimensional LC electrical resonator device having a given resonant frequency of 100 gigahertz or more, comprising: a separating layer; a first track made of a conductor and comprising two overlapping portions; and a second track made of a conductor, the second track comprising two overlapping portions and an inductive loop connecting the two overlapping portions, the first track and the second track respectively being formed on either side of the separating layer, each overlapping portion of the first track being placed facing a respective overlapping portion of the second track so as to form two capacitors that are spatially spaced apart from each other.
US10297892B2
When a plurality of RF signals having different frequer bands are output at the same time by carrier aggregation, a switch element allows parallel connection between two capacitance elements such that a low pass filter has a first cut-off frequency that is lower than the frequency of an intermodulation distortion signal generated by the carrier aggregation. When an RF signal of a frequency band is output, the switch element releases parallel connection between the two capacitance elements such that the low pass filter has a second cut-off frequency that is higher than the first cut-off frequency.
US10297890B2
The invention provides a method of storing varying or intermittent electrical energy and one or more of hydrogen (H2) and oxygen (O2) with an energy apparatus, the method comprising: providing the first cell aqueous liquid, the second cell aqueous liquid, and electrical power from an external power source to the functional unit thereby providing an electrically charged functional battery unit and one or more of hydrogen (H2) and oxygen (O2) stored in said storage system, wherein during at least part of a charging time the functional unit is charged at a potential difference between the first cell electrode and the second cell electrode of more than 1.37 V.
US10297882B2
A battery system includes a plurality of battery cells and a temperature-control element that is thermally conductively connected to the battery cells via a temperature-control surface. The temperature-control element has a temperature-control channel in an interior of the temperature-control element. The temperature-control channel is routed on the forward flow side via an inlet and on the return flow side via an outlet from the temperature-control element. A bypass is connected to the temperature-control channel via a dividing node and a merging node with the dividing node being arranged closer to the inlet than the merging node. A motor vehicle includes the battery system.
US10297876B2
Embodiments include methods and products for evaluating microbatteries. The microbattery includes a cathode layer, an anode layer physically separated from the cathode layer, and an electrolyte layer in contact with the anode and the cathode. The microbattery also includes at least one auxiliary electrode in physical contact with the electrolyte layer, the auxiliary electrode containing at least one metal coating and at least one non-conductive film, wherein the at least one metal coating is physically separated from the cathode and the anode.
US10297875B2
The invention is directed toward a battery including an on-cell indicator. The battery including an on-cell indicator includes at least one electrochemical cell; at least one on-cell indicator; a printed circuit board; and at least one integrated circuit. The at least one electrochemical cell includes a first terminal and a second terminal. The at least one on-cell indicator includes at least one on-cell indicator terminal. The printed circuit board includes at least one on-cell indicator contact and at least one electrochemical cell contact. The at least one electrochemical cell contact is in electrical connection with the first terminal of the at least one electrochemical cell. At least one conductive trace includes an on-cell indicator interconnect and a printed circuit board interconnect. The on-cell indicator interconnect is in electrical connection with the at least one on-cell indicator terminal. The printed circuit board interconnect is in electrical connection with the at least one on-cell indicator terminal. At least one integrated circuit is in electrical connection with the printed circuit board.
US10297874B2
A method of manufacturing an all-solid-state battery includes a lamination step of laminating a deactivated lithium-containing negative electrode active material layer containing deactivated lithium, a solid electrolyte layer for the all-solid-state battery, and a positive electrode active material layer for the all-solid-state battery such that the solid electrolyte layer for the all-solid-state battery is disposed between the deactivated lithium-containing negative electrode active material layer and the positive electrode active material layer for the all-solid-state battery.
US10297869B2
Provided is a highly reliable nickel-zinc battery including a separator exhibiting hydroxide ion conductivity and water impermeability. The separator is disposed in a hermetic container to separate a positive-electrode chamber accommodating a positive electrode and a positive-electrode electrolyte from a negative-electrode chamber accommodating a negative electrode and a negative-electrode electrolyte. The positive-electrode chamber has an extra positive-electrode space having a volume that meets a variation in amount of water in association with reaction at the positive electrode during charge and discharge of the battery, and the negative-electrode chamber has an extra negative-electrode space having a volume meeting a variation in amount of water in association with reaction at the negative electrode during charge and discharge of the battery. The nickel-zinc battery further includes a gas flow channel that connects the extra positive-electrode space to the extra negative-electrode space such that the spaces are in gas communication with each other.
US10297867B2
A sheet-laminated lithium ion secondary battery comprising: a membrane electrode assembly which comprises a cathode sheet comprising a cathode current collector having formed thereon a cathode active material layer, and an anode sheet comprising an anode current collector having formed thereon an anode active material layer, the cathode sheet and the anode sheet being laminated through a separator; and a sheet outer casing having accommodated therein the membrane electrode assembly, wherein, in the membrane electrode assembly, a sheet thermoplastic resin layer is inserted as at least one of an interlayer between the cathode sheet and the separator, and an interlayer between the anode sheet and the separator.
US10297866B2
Disclosed herein is a battery pack configured to have a structure including a plate-shaped battery cell having electrode terminals formed at one side thereof including a sealed surplus part and a protection circuit module (PCM) mounted at the sealed surplus part, wherein each of the electrode terminals of the battery cell is made of a plate-shaped conductive member, the PCM includes a protection circuit board (PCB), a safety element electrically connected between one of the electrode terminals of the battery cell and the PCB or loaded on the PCB, an external input and output terminal electrically connected to a protection circuit of the PCB, and an electrically insulative module case in which the PCB and the safety element are mounted in a state in which the external input and output terminal extends outside, the PCM is loaded on the sealed surplus part of the battery cell in a state in which the PCM is received in the module case such that the PCM is electrically connected to the electrode terminals of the battery cell, and the module case includes a PCB receiving part open outward at one side thereof and an adhesive fixing tape is attached to an outer surface of the module case contacting the sealed surplus part.
US10297864B2
A composite electrolyte including a polymeric ionic liquid; and an oligomeric electrolyte, wherein the oligomeric electrolyte includes an oligomer.
US10297861B2
The present invention aims to provide an anion conducting material having excellent anion conductivity and durability, which can be suitably used as a separator, an electrolyte, or an electrode protecting agent of an alkaline cell, for example. The present invention also aims to provide a cell including a cell component containing the anion conducting material. The present invention provides an anion conducting material containing a polymer and a compound containing at least one element selected from Groups 1 to 17 of the periodic table.
US10297853B2
A solid oxide fuel cell with a dense barrier layer formed at or near the outer surface of the top and/or bottom electrode layers in a fuel cell stack. The dense barrier layer (DBL) acts as a seal to prevent gas in the electrode layer (either air in a cathode layer or fuel gas in an anode layer) from leaking out of the stack though the outer surface of the outermost electrode layers. The use of a DBL with porous outer electrode layers reduces the amount of gas escaping the stack and minimizes the chances for leak-induced problems ranging from decreases in performance to catastrophic stack failure.
US10297850B2
A membrane electrode assembly is prepared by sandwiching an electrolyte membrane between an anode and a cathode. In the anode, a first porous layer is interposed between a first electrode catalyst layer and a first gas diffusion layer. In the cathode, a second porous layer is interposed between a second electrode catalyst layer and a second gas diffusion layer. A first piled body of the first gas diffusion layer and the first porous layer has a percolation pressure higher than that of a second piled body containing the second gas diffusion layer and the second porous layer. The first piled body has a percolation pressure of 25 to 120 kPa, and the second piled body has a percolation pressure of 5 to 25 kPa.
US10297847B2
A SOFC system having a fuel reformer for reforming a gaseous hydrocarbon stream and steam into a hydrogen rich gas, a solid oxide fuel cell stack including an anode and a cathode for electrochemically reacting the hydrogen rich gas and a cathode air stream to produce electricity, an anode exhaust stream and a cathode depleted air stream. The anode exhaust stream and the cathode depleted air stream are kept separate, a burner for combusting a mixture of the anode exhaust stream and a fresh air stream to complete combustion and produce heat for the reformer control unit and a blower are also provided. The control unit controlling the blower for controlling the mass flow rate of the fresh air stream to provide heat to the reformer to reform the gaseous hydrocarbon stream and to produce a burner exhaust stream.
US10297843B2
A MEA is set in a state where a hydrogen gas is continuously supplied to both an anode-side electrode and a cathode-side electrode. In this state, a current is applied from an external power supply unit to the anode-side electrode and the cathode-side electrode so that the cathode-side electrode has a higher potential and that the current value gradually increases. Upon applying the current in this way, measured voltages between both electrodes measured by a voltage measurement unit are plotted in time series, thereby measuring the voltage transition across the inspection object MEA. A power generation performance inspection of the inspection object MEA is carried out based on the measured voltage transition.
US10297838B2
An apparatus including a first electrode including a substantially homogeneous mixture of graphene oxide and a proton conductor; a second electrode including reduced graphene oxide; and spaced-apart charge collectors for the respective first and second electrodes, wherein the first and second electrodes extend from their respective charge collectors towards one another to form a junction at an interface there between, and wherein the substantially homogeneous mixture of the first electrode is configured to be sufficiently hydrophobic to prevent intermixing of the homogeneous mixture with the reduced graphene oxide of the second electrode in proximity to one or both of the respective charge collectors to prevent short circuiting of the spaced-apart charge collectors.
US10297833B2
A gas diffusion electrode and a method for manufacturing the same, the gas diffusion electrode being used for a fuel cell and configured by forming a microporous layer containing conductive microparticles and water-repellent resin on at least one surface of a conductive porous base material, wherein the gas diffusibility in the thickness direction thereof is 30% or more, the conductive porous base material has a sliding angle of 70° or less and a porosity of 80% or more, and the microporous layer has a thickness of 10-50 μm inclusive, and a porosity of 60-95% inclusive.
US10297832B2
A system and method for manufacturing a micropillar array (20). A carrier (11) is provided with a layer of metal ink (20i). A high energy light source (14) irradiates the metal ink (20i) via a mask (13) between the carrier (11) and the light source. The mask is configured to pass a cross-section illuminated image of the micropillar array onto the metal ink (20i), thereby causing a patterned sintering of the metal ink (20i) to form a first subsection layer (21) of the micropillar array (20) in the layer of metal ink (20i). A further layer of the metal ink (20i) is applied on top of the first subsection layer (21) of the micropillar array (20) and irradiated via the mask (13) to form a second subsection layer (21) of the micropillar array on top. The process is repeated to achieve high aspect ratio micropillars 20p.
US10297831B2
An object of the present disclosure is to provide an anode layer for a fluoride ion battery in which decomposition of a binder is restrained. The present disclosure attains the object by providing an anode layer to be used for a fluoride ion battery, the anode layer comprising an anode active material and a non-fluorine-based binder having aromaticity.
US10297827B2
An electrochemical cell including at least one nitrogen-containing compound is disclosed. The at least one nitrogen-containing compound may form part of or be included in: an anode structure, a cathode structure, an electrolyte and/or a separator of the electrochemical cell. Also disclosed is a battery including the electrochemical cell.
US10297809B2
A secondary battery includes: a case having an opening; an electrode assembly in the case; a cap plate for sealing the opening of the case; and an electrode unit penetrating through the cap plate, and electrically coupled to the electrode assembly. The electrode unit includes: a current collector coupled to the electrode assembly; and a lead coupled to the current collector and penetrating through the cap plate. The current collector and the lead are coupled to each other by inserting an assembling portion of the lead into an accommodation opening formed in the current collector. Thus, a structure of a coupling portion of the electrode unit for forming charging/discharging paths coupled to the electrode assembly may be improved, and accordingly, an effective internal volume of a case in which the electrode assembly is accommodated and a battery capacity of the electrode assembly may be increased.
US10297805B2
A method is provided for producing a separator by cutting a laminated porous film. The laminated porous film includes a porous base material layer containing polyolefin as a main component and a filler layer containing inorganic particles as a main component. The filler layer is provided on one surface of the porous base material layer; and a resin layer containing resin particles as a main component is provided on the other surface of the porous base material layer. The method includes a step of cutting, using a slit blade, the laminated porous film from the one surface on which the filler layer is provided.
US10297794B2
An OLED display device includes a substrate. A first electrode is disposed on the substrate. An organic light emitting layer is disposed on the first electrode. A second electrode is disposed on the organic light emitting layer. A thin film encapsulation layer is disposed on the second electrode. The thin film encapsulation layer includes at least one inorganic layer and at least one organic layer that is disposed alternately with the at least one inorganic layer. The at least one organic layer includes a low refractive index layer overlapping the organic light emitting layer and a high refractive index layer disposed on the low refractive index layer. The high refractive index layer includes a convex surface protruding toward the organic light emitting layer.
US10297792B2
A display device including a micro-cavity structure and a method for forming the same is provided. The display device includes light-emitting structures on pixel areas. In the display device, each of the pixel areas may realize a color different from an adjacent pixel area. In the display device, each of the light-emitting structures may include a reflective electrode, a resonant layer and a transparent electrode, which are sequentially stacked. In the display device, a side surface of the resonant layer and a side surface of the transparent electrode of the light-emitting structure may be surrounded by an interlayer insulating layer. Thus, in the display device, the reliability and the production efficiency may be improved.
US10297787B2
Disclosed herein are methods for welding a first substrate and a second substrate, the method comprising bringing the first and second substrates into contact to form a substrate interface, and directing a laser beam operating at a predetermined wavelength through the second substrate onto the substrate interface, wherein the first substrate absorbs light from the laser beam in an amount sufficient to form a weld between the first substrate and the second substrate. The disclosure also relates to glass and/or glass-ceramic packaging and OLED display produced according to the methods disclosed herein.
US10297779B1
The disclosure provides an OLED display device and a process for manufacturing the same, wherein the OLED display device includes a substrate, a first electrode, an organic functional layer, a second electrode, a polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) layer, and an upper electrode stacked in sequence, wherein the first electrode is an opaque electrode, and the second electrode is a semi-transparent electrode, and a micro-cavity structure consists of the first electrode, the organic functional layer, and the second electrode. The disclosure implements anti-peeping function and ensures the privacy of the display contents of the OLED display device while doing no harm to the organic functional layer. The disclosure also ensures that the display contents of the OLED display device can be dearly seen in a variety of angle.
US10297773B2
A wiring pattern manufacturing method includes: applying a liquid body including a first formation material on a substrate to form a base film; applying a liquid body including a second formation material on at least part of a surface of the base film to form a protection layer of the base film; forming a resist layer on a surface of the protection layer to expose the resist layer with desired patterning light; causing the exposed resist layer to come into contact with a developer to remove the resist layer and the protection layer until the base film is uncovered corresponding to the patterning light; and after depositing a catalyst on a surface of the uncovered base film, causing an electroless plating solution to come into contact with the surface of the base film to perform electroless plating.
US10297766B2
A composition contains a compound represented by the following formula: where M represents either of Si and Sn, R1 to R8 each independently represent an alkyl group containing three or less carbon atoms, and R9 to R14 each independently represent an alkyl group.
US10297759B2
The present disclosure relates to a novel compound having excellent hole injection capabilities and transport capabilities, light-emitting capabilities, and the like, and an organic electroluminescent device which includes the compound in one or more organic material layers thereof so as to improve characteristics such as light-emitting efficiency, driving voltage, and a service life.
US10297753B2
The present disclosure relates to a manufacturing method of flexible OLED. The method includes: S1: forming an anode and a hole transport layer on substrate being stacked in sequence, and forming a cathode and an electron transport layer being stacked in sequence; S2: applying an acidification process to a surface of the electron transport layer to obtain a cover assembly, and applying the acidification process to a surface of the hole transport layer; S3: forming a stopper chamber on the hole transport layer after being applied with the acidification process; S4: injecting liquid luminescent material into the stopper chamber to form a light emitting layer so as to obtain the substrate; S5: clasping the cover assembly on the substrate, and configuring the electron transport layer being applied with the acidification process to face toward the light emitting layer so as to obtain the flexible OLED.
US10297749B1
A method for forming an electrical device including a resistive switching memory cell in combination with a transistor. In some embodiments, the method may include forming a semiconductor device including a source region and a drain region on opposing sides of a channel region. A dielectric layer may be formed over the semiconductor device. A drain via opening may be formed through the dielectric layer to expose an upper surface of the drain region of the semiconductor device. A resistive random access memory cell is formed in the drain via opening in direct contact with the drain region of the semiconductor device.
US10297745B2
A bottom pinned perpendicular magnetic tunnel junction (pMTJ) with high TMR which can withstand high temperature back-end-of-line (BEOL) processing is disclosed. The pMTJ includes a composite spacer layer between a SAF layer and a reference layer of the fixed magnetic layer of the pMTJ. The composite spacer layer includes a first non-magnetic (NM) spacer layer, a magnetic (M) spacer layer disposed over the first NM spacer layer and a second NM spacer layer disposed over the M layer. The M layer is a magnetically continuous amorphous layer, which provides a good template for the reference layer.
US10297739B1
A braiding element and a method for operating the braiding device, a structure of braiding devices as well as an array of braiding devices for controlling parafermions for quantum computing may be provided. The braiding device comprises a first wire layer and a second wire layer, a superconductor layer arranged in vertical sandwich-style between the first and the second wire layer such that a device structure is built and a plurality cascades of gate electrodes such that one of the plurality of cascades of gate electrodes is arranged at the first quantum wire layer and at the second quantum wire layer of each of the three legs.
US10297735B2
Embodiments relate to a light emitting device package having an improved luminous flux, and the light emitting device package includes a body including a cavity, a first lead frame and a second lead frame exposed on a bottom surface of the cavity and separate from each other by an electrode separating member, a first light emitting device disposed on the first lead frame, a second light emitting device disposed on the second lead frame, and a Zener diode disposed on the first lead frame or the second lead frame, and disposed more closely to the electrode separating member than to the first light emitting device and the second light emitting device. Here, the electrode separating member diagonally separate the first lead frame and the second lead frame along a width direction of the body.
US10297734B2
An LED module is provided with a lead, an LED chip mounted on the obverse surface of the lead, and a case covering at least a part of the lead. The case has a side wall surrounding the LED chip. The lead includes a thin extension whose bottom surface is spaced apart upward from the reverse surface of the lead in the thickness direction of the lead. The case is provided with a holding portion that covers at least a part of each of the top surface and the bottom surface of the first thin extension.
US10297731B2
Light emitting diode (LED) constructions comprise an LED having a pair of electrical contacts along a bottom surface. A lens is disposed over the LED and covers a portion of the LED bottom surface. A pair of electrical terminals is connected with respective LED contacts, are sized larger than the contacts, and connect with the lens material along the LED bottom surface. A wavelength converting material may be interposed between the LED and the lens. LED constructions may comprise a number of LEDs, where the light emitted by each LED differs from one another by about 2.5 nm or less. LED constructions are made by attaching 2 or more LEDs to a common wafer by adhesive layer, forming a lens on a wafer level over each LED to provide a rigid structure, removing the common wafer, forming the electrical contacts on a wafer level, and then separating the LEDs.
US10297730B2
An LED device, a method for manufacturing an LED device, and an LED display module are provided. The LED device includes an LED bracket, an LED chip and an encapsulation sealant. The LED bracket includes a metal bracket and a cup cover encasing the metal bracket. The cup cover includes a reflective cup having a cavity. The LED chip is fixed in the cavity of the reflective cup. The cavity of the reflective cup is filled with the encapsulation sealant. The encapsulation sealant includes an under sealant and a surface sealant. The under sealant covers the LED chip, and the surface sealant covers the under sealant. The under sealant is a transparent layer. The surface sealant is a matte layer.
US10297723B2
A light-emitting device comprises a semiconductor stack comprising a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer, and an active layer formed between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer; a first pad on the semiconductor stack; a second pad on the semiconductor stack, wherein the first pad and the second pad are separated from each other with a distance, which define a region between the first pad and the second pad on the semiconductor stack; and multiple vias penetrating the active layer to expose the first semiconductor layer, wherein the first pad and the second pad are formed on regions other than the multiple vias.
US10297714B1
Light-emitting devices having a multiple quantum well (MQW) pin diode structure and methods of making and using the devices are provided. The light-emitting devices include: a tunneling heterojunction as a hole injector; an n-type contact; and a light-emitting active region disposed between the tunneling heterojunction and the n-type contact. The tunneling heterojunction facilitates interband tunneling hole injection under bias, whereby electrons in the valence band of a p-type group III-nitride semiconductor tunnel directly into the conduction band of the n-type doped semiconductor, resulting in the generation of holes in the p-type group III-nitride.
US10297708B1
A photodetector includes a detector material having an upper layer, a lower layer, and at least one sidewall. Also included as part of the photodetector are a first contact electrically coupled to the detector material through the upper layer and a second contact electrically coupled to the detector material through the lower layer. Diffused into the sidewall by a passivation process is a dopant material operable to electrically isolate the first contact from the second contact via the sidewall. The dopant material is provided by a passivation layer deposited on the sidewall.
US10297707B1
A photovoltaic structure for absorption from the solar spectrum, includes a light transmitting substrate layer, a transparent electrode layer on the substrate layer, a direct band-gap, wide band-gap, nanocrystalline or microcrystalline, think film semiconducting first layer on the transparent electrode layer, a second think film layer comprising a narrow band-gap semiconductor on the first layer a second electrode layer on the second think film layer, and a protective layer on the second electrode layer. The structure has a hetero-structure at the boundary between the wide-band-gap layer and the second thin film layer. The second layer can be chalcogenide salt having an average thickness of 0.4 to 1.2 μm, and preferably an average thickness of 0.5 to 0.6 μm. The chalcogenide salt layer is a lead chalcogenide, such as a nanocrystaline lead sulfide, nanocrystalline lead selenide, or a nanocrystalline lead telluride.
US10297706B2
A photoconductive switch is disclosed having a substrate, an electrode formed on the substrate, and a dielectric formed adjacent to the substrate and the electrode. The dielectric, the electrode and the substrate each have a portion cooperatively defining an interface area. The interface area of the dielectric has a doping making the interface area of the dielectric electrically conductive to suppress a charge collection at the interface area when the photoconductive switch is electrically energized through an input signal irradiating the electrode. In one embodiment the electrode may have a curvilinear or spherical shape, and the substrate may have a boundary edge surface which extends normal to the surface of the electrode, and with the dielectric having an edge surface that matches the contour of the substrate edge surface.
US10297703B2
A photodetector is described along with corresponding materials, systems, and methods. The photodetector comprises an integrated circuit and at least two optically sensitive layers. A first optically sensitive layer is over at least a portion of the integrated circuit, and a second optically sensitive layer is over the first optically sensitive layer. Each optically sensitive layer is interposed between two electrodes. The two electrodes include a respective first electrode and a respective second electrode. The integrated circuit selectively applies a bias to the electrodes and reads signals from the optically sensitive layers. The signal is related to the number of photons received by the respective optically sensitive layer.
US10297701B2
An optical switching device includes: an optical absorbing layer having a first superlattice structure and responding to an incident light; an excitation layer having a second superlattice structure and producing an electron by thermal excitation; and a barrier layer having a third superlattice structure, the optical absorbing layer and the barrier layer enabling a first band offset and a second band offset to form a well in a conduction band of the second superlattice structure of the excitation layer with reference to a conduction band of the first superlattice structure of the optical absorbing layer and a conduction band of the third superlattice structure of the barrier layer, respectively.
US10297700B1
Radiation detecting and sensing systems using graphene and methods of making the same are provided; including a substrate, a single or multiple layers of graphene nanoribbons, first and second conducting interconnects each in electrical communication with the graphene layers. Graphene layers are tuned to increase the temperature coefficient of resistance, increasing sensitivity to IR radiation. Absorption over a wide wavelength range (200 nm to 1 mm) is possible based on the three alternative devices structures described within. Devices can variously include (a) a microbolometer based graphene film where the TCR of the layer is enhanced with selected functionalization molecules, (b) graphene layers with a source and drain metal interconnect and a deposited metal of SiO2 gate which modulates the current flow across the phototransistor detector, and/or (c) tuned graphene layers layered on top of each other where a p-type layer and a n-type layer is created using a combination of oxidation and doping.
US10297697B1
A system for imaging at least one source of radiation with a mask and a plurality of detectors. The mask is characterized by a base pattern and configured to selectively transmit or block the radiation striking the mask based in part on the base pattern. The mask includes a plurality of tiles each repeating the base pattern. The number of the detectors is N and each of the tiles is divided into N respective portions. The plurality of detectors is positioned in a spaced apart configuration such that each of the plurality of detectors captures the radiation passing through different ones of the N respective portions of the plurality of tiles. The different ones of the N respective portions combine to form the base pattern.
US10297684B2
A field effect device includes a semiconductor body separating a source and a drain, both source and drain coupled to the semiconductor body. An insulated control gate is located over the semiconductor body between the source and drain and configured to control a conductive channel extending between the source and drain. First and second doped regions such as highly-doped regions are adjacent to the source. The first or second doped region may be a cathode short region electrically coupled to the source. The cathode short region may be used in a bidirectional power MOSFET.
US10297675B1
Methods of forming a field-effect transistor and structures for a field-effect transistor. A gate structure is formed that overlaps with a channel region in a semiconductor fin. The semiconductor fin is etched with a first etching process to form a first cavity extending into the semiconductor fin adjacent to the channel region. The semiconductor fin is etched with a second etching process to form a second cavity that is volumetrically smaller than the first cavity and that adjoins the first cavity.
US10297673B2
Methods of forming a semiconductor device are provided. The methods may include forming a plurality of fin-shaped channels on a substrate, forming a gate structure crossing over the plurality of fin-shaped channels and forming a source/drain adjacent a side of the gate structure. The source/drain may cross over the plurality of fin-shaped channels and may be electrically connected to the plurality of fin-shaped channels. The methods may also include forming a metallic layer on an upper surface of the source/drain and forming a conductive contact on the metallic layer opposite the source/drain. The conductive contact may have a first length in a longitudinal direction of the metallic layer that is less than a second length of the metallic layer in the longitudinal direction of the metallic layer.
US10297664B2
A method of forming nanosheet and nanowire transistors includes the formation of alternating epitaxial layers of silicon germanium (SiGe) and silicon (Si), where the germanium content within respective layers of the silicon germanium is systemically varied in order to mediate the selective etching of these layers. The germanium content can be controlled such that voids created by removal of the silicon germanium have uniform dimensions, and the backfilling of such voids with gate dielectric and gate conductor layers proximate to silicon nanosheets or nanowires results in devices having a uniform effective gate length.
US10297662B2
The present disclosure relates to a dielectrically isolated semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing the same. The dielectrically isolated semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a first semiconductor layer above the semiconductor substrate, a second semiconductor layer above the first semiconductor layer, a semiconductor island in the second semiconductor layer, and a first dielectric isolation layer surrounding a bottom and sidewalls of the semiconductor island. The first dielectric isolation layer includes a first portion which is formed from a portion of the first semiconductor layer and extending along the bottom of the semiconductor island, and a second portion which is formed from a portion of the second semiconductor layer and extending along the sidewalls of the semiconductor island. The dielectrically isolated semiconductor devices needs no an SOI wafer and reduces manufacturing cost.
US10297659B2
Semiconductor structures including a plurality of conductive structures having a dielectric material therebetween are disclosed. The thickness of the dielectric material spacing apart the conductive structures may be adjusted to provide optimization of capacitance and voltage threshold. The semiconductor structures may be used as capacitors, for example, in memory devices. Various methods may be used to form such semiconductor structures and capacitors including such semiconductor structures. Memory devices including such capacitors are also disclosed.
US10297658B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a thin film capacitor having a substrate, a first electrode layer on the substrate, a first dielectric layer on the first electrode layer where the first dielectric layer has a columnar-oriented grain structure, a group of second dielectric layers stacked on the first dielectric layer where each of the group of second dielectric layers has a randomly-oriented grain structure, and a second electrode layer on the group of second dielectric layers. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10297644B2
An OLED display device includes a substrate including red, green, and blue pixel areas, a first electrode at each of the red pixel area, the green pixel area, and the blue pixel area on the substrate, a hole transport layer on the first electrode, a light emission portion on the hole transport layer, the light emission portion including a red light emitting layer at the red pixel area, a green light emitting layer at the green pixel area, and a blue light emitting layer at the blue pixel area, a first charge generation layer and a first resonance auxiliary layer between the hole transport layer and the blue light emitting layer, a second resonance auxiliary layer between the hole transport layer and the red light emitting layer, an electron transport layer on the light emission portion, and a second electrode on the electron transport layer.
US10297643B2
Disclosed is an organic light emitting display device. The organic light emitting display device includes a substrate in which at least three pixel areas are defined, a first electrode and a hole transporting layer formed on the substrate, a light-emitting material layer formed on the hole transporting layer in each of the pixel areas, and an electron transporting layer and a second electrode formed on the light-emitting material layer. An optical assistant transporting layer is formed on the light-emitting material layer at a position corresponding to one of the pixel areas, and formed of an electron transporting material. Accordingly, provided can be a high-resolution organic light emitting display device that solves an imbalance of electric charges and has an excellent light output efficiency and an enhanced service life.
US10297642B2
A semiconductor device including a data storage pattern is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first conductive line disposed on a substrate and extending in a first direction, a second conductive line disposed on the first conductive line and extending in a second direction, and a first data storage structure and a first selector structure disposed between the first conductive line and the second conductive line and connected in series. The first data storage structure includes a first lower data storage electrode, a first data storage pattern, and a first upper data storage electrode. The first lower data storage electrode includes a first portion facing the first upper data storage electrode and vertically aligned with the first upper data storage electrode. The first data storage pattern includes a first side surface and a second side surface facing each other. The first upper data storage electrode and the first portion of the first lower data storage electrode are disposed to be closer to the first side surface of the first data storage pattern than to the second side surface of the first data storage pattern.
US10297640B2
Some embodiments include a memory device having first structures arranged in a first direction and second structures arranged in a second direction. At least one structure among the first and second structures includes a semiconductor material. The second structures contact the first structures at contact locations. A region at each of the contact locations is configured as memory element to store information based on a resistance of the region. The structures can include nanowires. Other embodiments are described.
US10297637B2
The present invention provides a micro LED array substrate encapsulation structure and an encapsulation method thereof. The micro LED array substrate encapsulation structure of the present invention includes a base plate, a micro LED array, and a photoresist protection layer. The micro LED array includes a plurality of micro LEDs arranged in an array. The photoresist protection layer is formed with a plurality of vias at locations corresponding to the plurality of micro LEDs. The plurality of micro LEDs are respectively located in the plurality of vias. Each of the vias is filled therein with a UV resin microlens that has an upper surface in a bulging form and covers the micro LED in the corresponding one of the vias. The micro LEDs and driving substrates located thereunder can be protected and an effect of light emission of the micro LED array substrate can be improved.
US10297636B2
A method of fabricating an image sensor includes implanting a first dopant in a substrate, removing a portion of the substrate to define a protrusion, forming a conductive feature over the protrusion, and implanting a second dopant in the protrusion. The removal of the portion of the substrate defines a first surface surrounding the protrusion. The second dopant has a same conductivity type as the first dopant.
US10297620B2
The disclosed display device includes: a substrate; a gate electrode disposed on the substrate; a first insulating layer disposed on the gate electrode; a metal layer disposed on the first insulating layer and including an opening; a second insulating layer disposed on the metal layer; and a connecting member electrically connecting to the gate electrode through a contact via penetrating the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer. A first outline included in a first projection of the gate electrode crosses a third outline included in a third projection of the connecting member at first and second intersections, a second outline included in a second projection of the metal layer crosses the third outline at third and fourth intersections, and a first distance between the first and second intersections is less than a second distance between the third and fourth intersections.
US10297614B2
The capacitance between gate structures and source/drain contacts of FinFET devices is reduced by the incorporation of inner spacers in the top portions of the gate structures. A replacement metal gate process used in the fabrication of such devices includes formation of the inner spacers following partial removal of dummy gate material. The remaining dummy gate material is then removed and replaced with gate dielectric and metal gate material.
US10297610B2
An array of memory stack structures extends through an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers over a substrate. An array of drain select level assemblies including cylindrical electrode portions is formed over the alternating stack with the same periodicity as the array of memory stack structures. A drain select level isolation strip including dielectric materials can be formed between a neighboring pair of drain select level assemblies employing the drain select level assemblies as a self-aligning template. Alternatively, cylindrical electrode portions can be formed around an upper portion of each memory stack structure. Strip electrode portions are formed on the cylindrical electrode portions after formation of the drain select level isolation strip.
US10297607B2
A non-volatile memory having discrete isolation structures and SONOS (Silicon Oxide Nitride Oxide Silicon) memory cells, a method of operating the same, and a method of manufacturing the same are introduced. Every isolation structure on a semiconductor substrate having an array region has a plurality of gaps so as to form discrete isolation structures and thereby implant source lines in the gaps of the semiconductor substrate. Since the source lines are not severed by the isolation structures, the required quantity of barrier pins not connected to the source line is greatly reduced, thereby reducing the space required for the barrier pins in the non-volatile memory.
US10297605B2
Systems, methods, and techniques described here provide for a hybrid electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM) that functions as both a single polysilicon EEPROM and a double polysilicon EEPROM. The two-in-one hybrid EEPROM can be programmed and/or erased as a single polysilicon EEPROM and/or as a double polysilicon EEPROM. The hybrid EEPROM memory cell includes a programmable capacitor disposed on a substrate. The programmable capacitor includes a floating gate forming a first polysilicon layer, an oxide-nitride-oxide (ONO) layer having disposed over a first surface of the floating gate, and a control gate forming a second polysilicon layer with the control gate formed over a first surface of the ONO layer to form a hybrid EEPROM having a single polysilicon layer and a double polysilicon EEPROM. The single polysilicon EEPROM includes the first polysilicon layer and the double polysilicon EEPROM includes the first and second polysilicon layers.
US10297604B2
Some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to method of forming a memory device. In some embodiments, the method may be performed by forming a floating gate over a first dielectric on a substrate. A control gate is formed over the floating gate and first and second spacers are formed along sidewalls of the control gate. The first and second spacers extend past outer edges of an upper surface of the floating gate. An etching process is performed on the first and second spacers to remove a portion of the first and second spacers that extends past the outer edges of the upper surface of the floating gate along an interface between the first and second spacers and the floating gate.
US10297593B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a first region having an insulated gate bipolar transistor and a second region having a diode. The first region and the second region are formed in a same chip. A breakdown voltage of the second region is lower than a breakdown voltage of the first region.
US10297583B2
An embodiment of the present invention describes a method for forming a doped region at a first major surface of a semiconductor substrate where the first doped region being part of a first semiconductor device. The method includes forming an opening from the first major surface into the semiconductor substrate and attaching a semiconductor die to the semiconductor substrate at the opening. The semiconductor die includes a second semiconductor device, which is a different type of semiconductor device than the first semiconductor device. The method further includes forming a chip isolation region on sidewalls of the opening and surrounding the second semiconductor device, and singulating the semiconductor substrate.
US10297581B2
Display panels and methods of manufacture are described for down converting a peak emission wavelength of a pump LED within a subpixel with a quantum dot layer. In some embodiments, pump LEDs with a peak emission wavelength below 500 nm, such as between 340 nm and 420 nm are used. QD layers in accordance with embodiments can be integrated into a variety of display panel structures including a wavelength conversion cover arrangement, QD patch arrangement, or QD layers patterned on the display substrate.
US10297579B2
A structure includes a first package and a second package. The second package is coupled to the first package by one or more connectors. Epoxy flux residue is disposed around the connectors and in contact with the connectors. A method includes providing a first package having first connector pads and providing a second package having corresponding second connector pads. Solder paste is printed on each of the first connector pads. Epoxy flux is printed on each of the solder paste. The first and second connector pads are aligned and the packages are pressed together. The solder paste is reflowed to connect the first connector pads to the second connector pads while leaving an epoxy flux residue around each of the connections.
US10297576B2
A packaged module for a radio frequency wireless device has a substrate supporting a first wireless device component and a second wireless device component where the first wireless device component is between the second wireless device component and a first surface of the substrate. At least a first overhanging portion of the second wireless device component extends beyond at least a portion of the periphery of the first wireless device component.
US10297574B2
There is provided a semiconductor device assembly with an interposer and method of manufacturing the same. More specifically, in one embodiment, there is provided a semiconductor device assembly comprising a semiconductor substrate, at least one semiconductor die attached to the semiconductor substrate, an interposer disposed on the semiconductor die, and a controller attached to the interposer. There is also provided a method of manufacturing comprising forming a first subassembly by coupling a substrate and a semiconductor die, and forming second subassembly by attaching a controller to an interposer, and coupling the first subassembly to the second subassembly.
US10297573B2
A three-dimensional package structure, comprising: a substrate; a first plurality of discrete electronic components disposed over the bottom surface of the substrate, wherein a first insulating layer is disposed over the bottom surface of the substrate to encapsulate the first plurality of discrete electronic components, wherein at least one second insulating layer is disposed over the first insulating layer, wherein a plurality of surface-mount pads are disposed on the bottom surface of the at least one second insulating layer and electrically connected to at least one via disposed in the at least one second insulating layer.
US10297566B2
A semiconductor structure includes a substrate, a chip, a plurality of conductive bumps, a flexible printed circuit (FPC) board and a plurality of circuit patterns. The chip is disposed on the substrate and includes a plurality of pads. The conductive bumps are disposed on the pads respectively. The FPC board is connected between the substrate and the chip, and the conductive bumps penetrate through an end of the FPC board. The circuit patterns are disposed on the FPC board and electrically connected to the conductive bumps and the substrate.
US10297565B2
An electronic device made from the method of providing a donor substrate comprising an array of metallic interconnects, using a laser system to prepare the metallic interconnects, forming shaped metallic interconnects, laser bending the shaped metallic interconnects; and transferring the shaped metallic interconnects onto a receiving substrate or device.
US10297554B2
A semiconductor package including a marking film and a method of fabricating the same are provided wherein a marking film including a thermoreactive layer may be applied to a molding layer to protect a semiconductor chip under the molding layer and to efficiently perform a marking process. The thickness of the molding layer may thereby be reduced so the entire thickness of the semiconductor package may be reduced. Also, it is possible to prevent warpage of the semiconductor package through the marking film, provide the surface of the semiconductor package with gloss and freely adjust the color of the surface of the semiconductor package.
US10297550B2
A device includes an interposer, which includes a substrate having a top surface. An interconnect structure is formed over the top surface of the substrate, wherein the interconnect structure includes at least one dielectric layer, and metal features in the at least one dielectric layer. A plurality of through-substrate vias (TSVs) is in the substrate and electrically coupled to the interconnect structure. A first die is over and bonded onto the interposer. A second die is bonded onto the interposer, wherein the second die is under the interconnect structure.
US10297546B2
Interconnect structures for a security application and methods of forming an interconnect structure for a security application. A sacrificial masking layer is formed that includes a plurality of particles arranged with a random distribution. An etch mask is formed using the sacrificial masking layer. A hardmask is etched while masked by the etch mask to define a plurality of mask features arranged with the random distribution. A dielectric layer is etched while masked by the hardmask to form a plurality of openings in the dielectric layer that are arranged at the locations of the mask features. The openings in the dielectric layer are filled with a conductor to define a plurality of conductive features.
US10297544B2
Provided is an integrated fan-out package including a die, an insulating encapsulation, a redistribution circuit structure, a conductive terminal, and a barrier layer. The die is encapsulated by the insulating encapsulation. The redistribution circuit structure includes a redistribution conductive layer. The redistribution conductive layer is disposed in the insulating encapsulation and extending from a first surface of the insulating encapsulation to a second surface of the insulating encapsulation. The conductive terminal is disposed over the second surface of the insulating encapsulation. The barrier layer is sandwiched between the redistribution conductive layer and the conductive terminal. A material of the barrier layer is different from a material of the redistribution conductive layer and a material of the conductive terminal. A method of fabricating the integrated fan-out package is also provided.
US10297543B2
A vertical semiconductor device including a plurality of interlayer insulating layer patterns spaced apart from each other on a substrate and stacked in a vertical direction; a plurality of conductive layer patterns arranged between the interlayer insulating layer patterns and each having a rounded end, wherein at least one of the conductive layer patterns is configured to extend from one side wall of each of the interlayer insulating layer patterns and include a pad region, and the pad region includes a raised pad portion configured to protrude from a surface of the at least one conductive layer pattern; an upper interlayer insulating layer to cover the interlayer insulating layer patterns and the conductive layer patterns; and a contact plug configured to penetrate the upper interlayer insulating layer to be in contact with the raised pad portion of the at least one conductive layer pattern.
US10297542B2
A package structure including a capacitor mounted within a cavity in the package substrate is disclosed. The package structure may additionally include a die mounted to a die side surface of the package substrate, and the opposing land side surface of the package substrate may be mounted to a printed circuit board (PCB). The capacitor may be mounted within a cavity formed in the die side surface of the package substrate or the land side surface of the package substrate. Mounting a capacitor within a cavity may reduce the form factor of the package. The die may be mounted within a cavity formed in the die side surface of the package substrate. Solder balls connecting the package to the PCB may be mounted within one or more cavities formed in one or both of the package substrate and the PCB.
US10297538B2
A signal transmission apparatus includes: a first lead frame; a second lead frame spaced from the first lead frame; a primary semiconductor chip electrically connected to the first lead frame; a secondary semiconductor chip electrically connected to the second lead frame; and a signal isolator through which a signal is isolatedly transmitted from the primary semiconductor chip to the secondary semiconductor chip, the signal isolator having a first main surface that is bonded to both the first lead frame and the second lead frame.
US10297534B2
A single chip integrated circuit (IC) package includes a die pad, and a spacer ring on the die pad defining a solder receiving area. A solder body is on the die pad within the solder receiving area. An IC die is on the spacer ring and is secured to the die pad by the solder body within the solder receiving area. Encapsulating material surrounds the die pad, spacer ring, and IC die. For a multi-chip IC package, a dam structure is on the die pad and defines multiple solder receiving areas. A respective solder body is on the die pad within a respective solder receiving area. An IC die is within each respective solder receiving area and is held in place by a corresponding solder body. Encapsulating material surrounds the die pad, dam structure, and plurality of IC die.
US10297533B2
A semiconductor device is provided, including: a bottom portion having a pad formed of a conductive material; a lid portion covering at least a part of the bottom portion; and a first terminal portion and a second terminal portion which are provided in parallel with each other, are fixed to the lid portion, and each contact a corresponding pad, wherein: the first terminal portion is provided with a first plate-shaped portion; the second terminal portion is provided with a second plate-shaped portion; and each of the first plate-shaped portion and the second plate-shaped portion has a principal surface in a direction facing the pad and is flexible in a direction toward the pad.
US10297529B2
The present disclosure relates to a thermally enhanced semiconductor package, which includes a module substrate, a thinned flip chip die over the module substrate, a mold compound component, a thermally conductive film, and a thermally enhanced mold compound component. The mold compound component resides over the module substrate, surrounds the thinned flip chip die, and extends above an upper surface of the thinned flip chip die to form a cavity over the upper surface of the thinned flip chip die. The thermally conductive film resides over at least the upper surface of the thinned flip chip at the bottom of the cavity. The thermally enhanced mold compound component resides over at least a portion of the thermally conductive film to fill the cavity.
US10297519B2
A PoP semiconductor device has a top semiconductor package disposed over a bottom semiconductor package. The top semiconductor package has a substrate and a first semiconductor die disposed over the substrate. First and second encapsulants are deposited over the first semiconductor die and substrate. A first build-up interconnect structure is formed over the substrate after depositing the second encapsulant. The top package is disposed over the bottom package. The bottom package has a second semiconductor die and modular interconnect units disposed around the second semiconductor die. A second build-up interconnect structure is formed over the second semiconductor die and modular interconnect unit. The modular interconnect units include a plurality of conductive vias and a plurality of contact pads electrically connected to the conductive vias. The I/O pattern of the build-up interconnect structure on the top semiconductor package is designed to coincide with the I/O pattern of the modular interconnect units.
US10297518B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor die. An encapsulant is formed around the semiconductor die. A build-up interconnect structure is formed over a first surface of the semiconductor die and encapsulant. A first supporting layer is formed over a second surface of the semiconductor die as a supporting substrate or silicon wafer disposed opposite the build-up interconnect structure. A second supporting layer is formed over the first supporting layer and includes a fiber enhanced polymer composite material comprising a footprint including an area greater than or equal to an area of a footprint of the semiconductor die. The semiconductor die comprises a thickness less than 450 micrometers (μm). The thickness of the semiconductor die is at least 1 μm less than a difference between a total thickness of the semiconductor device and a thickness of the build-up interconnect structure and the second supporting layer.
US10297513B1
The present invention provides stacked VFET devices. In one aspect, a method of forming a stacked VFET device includes: patterning a fin(s) in a wafer having a vertical fin channel of a VFET1 separated from a vertical fin channel of a VFET2 by an insulator; forming a bottom source and drain of the VFET1 below the vertical fin channel of the VFET1; forming a gate of the VFET1 alongside the vertical fin channel of the VFET1; forming a gate of the VFET2 alongside the vertical fin channel of the VFET2; forming a top source and drain of the VFET1 above the vertical fin channel of the VFET1; forming a bottom source and drain of the VFET2 below the vertical fin channel of the VFET2; and forming a top source and drain of the VFET2 above the vertical fin channel of the VFET2. A stacked VFET device is also provided.
US10297507B2
A vertical FET structure includes a bottom source-drain region disposed on a substrate of the first type; a recessed first heterostructure layer disposed on the bottom source-drain region; a first fin disposed on the bottom source-drain region; a dielectric inner spacer disposed on the recessed first heterostructure; an outer spacer disposed on the inner spacer; a high-k and metal gate layer disposed on the outer spacer, the inner spacer, and the channel layer; an interlayer dielectric oxide disposed between the first fin and the outer spacer; a recessed second heterostructure layer disposed on top of the substrate of the first type and high-k and metal gate layer; a dielectric inner spacer disposed on the recessed second heterostructure layer; and a top source-drain region layer disposed on the dielectric inner spacer and recessed second heterostructure layer resulting in the vertical FET. A method for forming the vertical FET is also provided.
US10297505B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a first insulating film over a first fin structure and a second insulating film over a second fin structure, coating a protective layer over the second insulating film, removing the first insulating film to expose a portion of the first fin structure, and forming a first oxide film over the exposed portion of the first fin structure using a non-aqueous solvent-based chemical.
US10297498B2
A method for preparing a ceramic package substrate with a copper-plated dam involves making a circuit layer on a ceramic base by performing thin film metallization, dry film application, exposure, development, copper plating, and evening, and then forming copper-plated dams that circle individual circuits by repeatedly applying dry film application, exposure, development, and electroplating for thickening, so as to obtain the ceramic package substrate with the copper-plated dam. Circuits made using the method feature for high dimensional precision, high line resolution, and high surface evenness.
US10297495B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a first conductive structure on a substrate, forming an insulation layer on a sidewall of the first conductive structure, forming a second conductive structure a distance apart from the first conductive structure with the insulation layer therebetween, first removing a portion of the insulation layer by performing a first dry cleaning operation, second removing a reactant product used in the first dry cleaning operation or a first byproduct generated as a result of the first dry cleaning operation by performing a first purge operation, and third removing at least a portion of the remaining insulation layer by performing a second dry cleaning operation to form an air gap between the first and second conductive structures.
US10297493B2
The present disclosure includes semiconductor structures and methods of forming semiconductor structures for trench isolation interfaces. An example semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor substrate having a shallow trench isolation (STI) structure with a trench formed therein. An material in the trench forms a charged interface by interaction with the semiconductor substrate of the STI structure. The formed charged interface raises a parasitic threshold of the STI structure.
US10297489B2
A plasma processing method includes a mounting process of mounting a holding sheet holding a substrate in a stage provided in a plasma processing apparatus, and a fixing process of fixing the holding sheet to the stage. The plasma processing method further includes a determining process of determining whether or not a contact state of the holding sheet with the stage is good or bad after the fixing process, and a plasma etching process of etching the substrate by exposing a surface of the substrate to plasma on the stage, in a case in which the contact state is determined to be good in the determining process.
US10297481B2
A magnetic annealing apparatus is provided which performs a magnetic annealing on workpieces held in a workpiece boat by using a horizontal superconducting magnet as a magnetic field generating unit. The magnetic annealing apparatus includes a carrier configured to accommodate the workpieces before the magnetic annealing process; and a workpiece conveyance mechanism configured to convey the workpieces held in the carrier to the workpiece boat. The workpiece conveyance mechanism is capable of holding the workpieces in either a horizontal state or in a vertical state.
US10297476B2
A supply flow passage branches into a plurality of upstream flow passages. A plurality of discharge ports are respectively disposed at a plurality of positions differing in distance from a rotational axis of a substrate. A return flow passage is connected to the upstream flow passage. A downstream heater heats liquid flowing through the upstream flow passage. A downstream switching unit supplies the liquid, supplied to the plurality of upstream flow passages from the supply flow passage, to one of the plurality of discharge ports and the return flow passage, selectively.
US10297466B2
Provided are a semiconductor device including an interposer having a relatively thin thickness without a through silicon via and a method of manufacturing the same. The method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming an interposer including a redistribution layer and a dielectric layer on a dummy substrate, connecting a semiconductor die to the redistribution layer facing an upper portion of the interposer, encapsulating the semiconductor die by using an encapsulation, removing the dummy substrate from the interposer, and connecting a bump to the redistribution layer facing a lower portion of the interposer.
US10297457B2
Apparatus, systems, and methods for controlling azimuthal uniformity of an etch process in a plasma processing chamber are provided. In one embodiment, a plasma processing apparatus can include a plasma processing chamber and an RF cage disposed above the plasma processing chamber. A dielectric window can separate the plasma processing chamber and the RF cage. The apparatus can include a plasma generating coil disposed above the dielectric window. The plasma generating coil can be operable to generate an inductively coupled plasma in the plasma processing chamber when energized. The apparatus further includes a conductive surface disposed within the RF cage proximate to at least a portion of the plasma generating coil. The conductive surface is arranged to generate an azimuthally variable inductive coupling between the conductive surface and the plasma generating coil when the plasma generating coil is energized.
US10297456B2
A dielectric structure for a nitride semiconductor device and a method of forming the same. A semiconductor device includes at least one semiconductor layer. The at least one semiconductor layer includes a gallium nitride semiconductor material. The semiconductor device also includes an oxidized layer disposed over the at least one semiconductor layer. The oxidized layer includes an oxidized form of the gallium nitride semiconductor of the at least one semiconductor layer. A silicon oxide layer is disposed over the oxidized layer. A gate is disposed over the silicon oxide layer.
US10297442B2
Provided are methods and apparatuses for depositing a graded or multi-layered silicon carbide film using remote plasma. A graded or multi-layered silicon carbide film can be formed under process conditions that provide one or more organosilicon precursors onto a substrate in a reaction chamber. Radicals of source gas in a substantially low energy state, such as radicals of hydrogen in the ground state, are provided from a remote plasma source into reaction chamber. In addition, co-reactant gas is flowed towards the reaction chamber. In some implementations, radicals of the co-reactant gas are provided from the remote plasma source into the reaction chamber. A flow rate of the co-reactant gas can be changed over time, incrementally or gradually, to form a multi-layered silicon carbide film or a graded silicon carbide film having a composition gradient from a first surface to a second surface of the graded silicon carbide film.
US10297439B2
A film forming method of depositing a thin film of a reaction product generated by a reaction between a raw material gas and a reactive gas on a substrate by alternately supplying the raw material gas and the reactive gas to the substrate accommodated in a processing container. The film forming method includes: storing the raw material gas in a reservoir; adsorbing the raw material gas on the substrate by supplying the raw material gas stored in the reservoir to the substrate; and reacting the raw material gas and the reactive gas with each other by supplying the reactive gas to the substrate on which the raw material gas is adsorbed to generate the reaction product; wherein the storing, the adsorbing, and the reacting are repeated a plurality of times, while a condition for the storing is changed at least once.
US10297436B2
The present invention relates to a method and device for measuring m/z ratios of ions in ion cyclotron resonance (ICR) mass spectrometry. The described ion traps for ICR mass spectrometry are distinct from the previous configurations by having one or many narrow aperture (flat) detection electrodes that could be moved radially inward the ICR trap, for example on the plane where radiofrequency excitation potential is minimal, closer to the post-excitation ion trajectories.
US10297432B2
Systems and methods are provided to perform sequential windowed acquisition of mass spectrometry data. A mass range and a mass window width parameter are received for a sample. A plurality of ions from the sample that are within the mass range are collected in an ion trap of a mass spectrometer. Two or more mass adjacent or overlapping windows are calculated to span the mass range using the mass window width parameter. Ions within each mass window are ejected from the ion trap. A mass spectrum is then detected from the ejected ions of the each mass window with a mass analyzer of the mass spectrometer, producing a collection of mass spectra for the mass range. The two or more mass windows can all have the same width, can all have different widths, or can have at least two mass windows with different widths.
US10297427B2
The present invention provides a method for plasma dicing a substrate. The method comprising providing a process chamber having a wall; providing a plasma source adjacent to the wall of the process chamber; providing a work piece support within the process chamber; placing the substrate onto a support film on a frame to form a work piece work piece; loading the work piece onto the work piece support; providing a cover ring disposed above the work piece; generating a plasma through the plasma source; and etching the work piece through the generated plasma.
US10297425B2
A method and apparatus for plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition to an interior region of a hollow, tubular, high aspect ratio workpiece are disclosed. A plurality of anodes are disposed in axially spaced apart arrangement, to the interior of the workpiece. A process gas is introduced into the region. A respective individualized DC or pulsed DC bias is applied to each of the anodes. The bias excites the process gas into a plasma. The workpiece is biased in a hollow cathode arrangement. Pressure is controlled in the interior region to maintain the plasma. An elongated support tube arranges the anodes, and receives a process gas tube. A current splitter provides a respective selected proportion of a total current to each anode. One or more notch diffusers or chamber diffusers may diffuse the process gas or a plasma moderating gas. Plasma impedance and distribution may be controlled using various means.
US10297423B2
A plasma generation apparatus according to the present invention includes an electrode cell and a housing that encloses an electrode cell. The electrode cell includes a first electrode, a second electrode facing the first electrode with interposition of a discharge space therebetween, and dielectrics arranged on main surfaces of the electrodes. The plasma generation apparatus further includes a pipe passage configured to directly supply a source gas from the outside of the housing to the discharge space without being connected to a space within the housing where the electrode cell is not arranged.
US10297421B1
Embodiments are directed to forming reentrant multi-layer micro-scale or millimeter scale three dimensional structures, parts, components, or devices where each layer is formed from a plurality of deposited materials and more specifically where each layer is formed from at least one metal structural material and at least one organic sacrificial material (e.g. polymer) that are co-planarized and a portion of the sacrificial material located on a plurality of layers is removed after formation of the plurality of layers via one or more plasma etching operations.
US10297419B2
The present invention has an object to provide a scanning electron microscope which suppresses a potential gradient produced by preliminary charge without changing lens conditions of an electron microscope. As an aspect to achieve the above object, there is proposed a scanning electron microscope in which a scanning deflector is controlled so that a second beam is scanned to detect electrons released from a sample after scanning a first beam on the sample to charge the surface of the sample and the first beam is scanned so that charge density in a surrounding part within a scanned area by the first beam is increased relatively as compared with a center part within the scanned area by the first beam.
US10297412B2
A negative ion source includes a plasma chamber, a microwave source, a negative ion converter, a magnetic filter and a beam formation mechanism. The plasma chamber contains gas to be ionized. The microwave source transmits microwaves to the plasma chamber to ionize the gas into atomic species including hyperthermal neutral atoms. The negative ion converter converts the hyperthermal neutral atoms to negative ions. The magnetic filter reduces a temperature of an electron density provided between the plasma chamber and the negative ion converter. The beam formation mechanism extract the negative ions.
US10297402B2
The present invention discloses a magnetic pulse inducted transfer-type DC circuit breaker. The DC circuit breaker comprises a main current circuit and a transfer current circuit, the main current circuit comprising a combination of a fast mechanical switch or a mechanical switch with a power electronic device; the transfer current circuit comprises an arrester and a mutual inductor. The voltage generated through a mutual inductor may directly transfer current to the arrestor, thereby eliminating a process of transfer of the current to the capacitor or a power electronic device; it has a high current limiting or breaking speed, with a stability far superior to traditional technologies. The isolation between the capacitance charging unit and the DC system significantly reduces the voltage level and size of the charging unit, and enhances action reliability. The power semiconductor devices or trigger gaps are used at the primary side of the mutual inductor of the transfer current circuit form a bridge circuit, thereby realizing bidirectional current transfer; the bridge circuit is voltage-withstanding and low-cost.
US10297400B2
A trip cam assembly is for a multi-pole electrical switching apparatus. The trip cam assembly includes a first trip cam, a second trip cam, and an interconnect member coupled to the first trip cam and the second trip cam.
US10297398B2
A porous carbon material for electrodes of energy storage devices comprising: a porous carbon material; 0.5 to 5 parts by mass of an insulating material having a boiling point of 150° C. or more based on 100 parts by mass of the porous carbon material; and 0.25 to 15 parts by mass of a conductive additive based on 100 parts by mass of the insulating material, wherein the insulating material and the conductive additive are carried on the porous carbon material in combination, and the porous carbon material has a BET specific surface area of 1300 to 2050 m2/g.
US10297391B2
A composite electronic component includes a substrate with a first main surface and a side end surface, a first electronic component including external electrodes and mounted on the first main surface of the substrate, a second electronic component including external electrodes and being different in electrical function from the first electronic component mounted on the first main surface of the substrate, and a conductive pattern on the first main surface of the substrate, electrically connecting the first electronic component and the second electronic component to each other, and including one end reaching a side of one side end of the substrate, one external electrode of the first electronic component and one external electrode of the second electronic component being located on the side of the one side end of the substrate, another external electrode of the first electronic component and another external electrode of the second electronic component being connected to the conductive pattern, and the composite electronic component being mounted such that a surface of the substrate on the side of the one side end is opposed to a first main surface of a mount substrate.
US10297378B2
A standard inductance box, relating to the fields of measurement or calibration, and relating in particular to a standard gauge for transferring an inductance parameter. The standard inductance box uses unary, binary and quinary, and comprises a physical inductance box section and a simulated inductance box section, said sections being respectively arranged in a metal box. Electrodes of the physical inductance box section and the simulated inductance box section are led out. The inductance range of the standard inductance box is 1 μH-500 H. The described means achieve an inductance range of 1 μH-500 H, expanding the inductance range in the prior art, and the application of a simulated inductance box. Using unary, binary and quinary standards reduces the size and weight of the physical inductance box section, facilitating transportation and use in the field.
US10297374B1
Provided is a metal oxide varistor having an overcurrent protection function. The metal oxide varistor includes a metal oxide varistor body, a first electrode layer, a second electrode layer coated, an anistropic conductive paste (ACP) attached to a surface of the first electrode layer on one side of the first direction, a fuse plate bonded to the ACP and electrically conductive to the first electrode layer, a first copper-plated wire having one side of a second direction orthogonal to the first direction connected to the fuse plate, a second copper-plated wire having one side of the second direction bonded to the surface of the second electrode layer on the other side of the first direction, and an insulated coating member configured to surround the first copper-plated wire and the second copper-plated wire on one side of the second direction, the metal oxide varistor body and the fuse plate.
US10297371B2
Disclosed is a capacitor bushing and a method of manufacturing the same. The capacitor bushing includes insulating layers (20), formed by winding insulating fibers (22) around the outer side of a central conductor (10), and conductive layers (30) between the insulating layers (20). The wefts (34) and warps (36) that constitute the conductive fibers (32) are manufactured by sequentially forming a first coating layer (38) and a second coating layer (38′) on the surface of a core wire (37). The wefts (24 and 34) and the warps (26 and 36) of the insulating fibers (22) and the conductive fibers (32) extend obliquely with respect to the longitudinal direction of the central conductor (10). The wefts (24 and 34) and the warps (26 and 36) form a polygonal or circular shape. The present invention has a merit in that bubbles are prevented from being generated in the filling layers (40).
US10297370B1
Provided are methods for forming a rigid cable harness. An example method includes providing a curable sleeve comprising a curable compound, an adhesive, and a backing; wherein the curable adhesive tape has a longitudinal direction. The method further includes placing a plurality of cables on the sleeve in the longitudinal direction and wrapping the curable sleeve around the placed plurality of cables to form a cable harness, wherein the wrapping comprises wrapping the plurality of cables with the curable sleeve in the longitudinal direction. The method additionally includes positioning the cable harness into a desired shape and curing the curable compound of the cable harness to form the rigid cable harness, wherein the rigid cable harness has the desired shape.
US10297367B2
A composite cable includes a first twisted-pair wire formed by twisting a pair of first electric wires, a second twisted-pair wire formed by twisting a pair of second electric wires, a pair of third electric wires arranged between the first and second twisted-pair wires in a circumferential direction, each third electric wire having a larger outer diameter than the first and second electric wires, and a tape member spirally wound around an assembled article that is formed by twisting the first twisted-pair wire, the second twisted-pair wire and the pair of third electric wires together. The two twisted-pair wires have the same twist direction, the twist direction of the two twisted-pair wires is different from a twist direction of the assembled article, and the twist direction of the assembled article is different from a winding direction of the tape member.
US10297363B2
The present invention relates to a composition for forming a conductive pattern and a resin structure having a conductive pattern, wherein the composition makes it possible to form a fine conducive pattern on various polymer resin products or resin layers through a simple process, and can more effectively meet needs of the art, such as displaying various colors.
US10297357B2
The invention relates to a storage device for storing and/or transporting nuclear fuel assemblies, which includes recesses (2) defined by separating partitions (9) defining first and second recesses (2), the partition comprising: two first walls (22) defining the first and second recesses and made of an aluminium-alloy material which is free of neutron-absorbing elements, and defining therebetween a first inter-wall space (28); two second walls (30) arranged in the first space (28) and made of a material which comprises neutron-absorbing elements, the distance between the inner (36) and outer (34) surfaces of each second wall (30) defining a thickness (e2), and a distance (E) being defined between the outer surface (34) of each second wall and a median partition plane (20), the values meeting the condition 0.1≤e2/E≤0.43.
US10297350B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for determining a basal rate adjustment of insulin based on risk associated with a glucose state of a person with diabetes. A method may include detecting a glucose state of the person based on a received glucose measurement signal and determining a current risk metric associated with the detected glucose state. The method may include determining a current risk metric associated with the detected glucose state based on a weighted average of cumulative hazard values of return paths generated from a glucose state distribution around a detected glucose state. The method may include calculating an adjustment to a basal rate of a therapy delivery device based on the current risk metric associated with the detected glucose state and a reference risk metric associated with a reference glucose level.
US10297343B1
A method for using a health information exchange system which stores patient record data regarding a multiplicity of patients, to serve a first plurality of EMRs each interacting with an EMR community including a set of at least one EMR, the method comprising: for each individual EMR within the first plurality of EMRs, performing a computerized context interception process using a processor to intercept context from the individual EMR and to identify there within an event whereby a health provider using the individual EMR calls up an individual patient's record from said individual EMR; and responsive to identification of the event, using a computerized output device for providing patient record data, pertaining to the individual patient, to the health provider.
US10297340B2
Systems and methods disclosed herein include those that may receive a memory request including a requested memory address and may send the memory request directly to an address decoder associated with a stacked-die memory vault without knowing whether a repair address is required. If a subsequent analysis of the memory request shows that a repair address is required, an in-process decode of the requested memory address can be halted and decoding of the repair address initiated.
US10297339B2
Example features or aspects of the present invention are described in relation to a small, quiet integrated cooling system for an apparatus for testing electronic devices. Characteristics of the test apparatus including a low noise output, low power consumption and a compact size with a small spatial and volume footprint are selected for deployment and use in a an office like environment. The test apparatus comprises a chassis frame and a cooler frame disposed within the chassis frame and thus integrated within the test apparatus, which has a reduced form factor suitable for the in-office deployment. Embodiments offer the ability to maintain the working fluid at a constant temperature.
US10297336B2
Provided herein is a fail bit counter. The fail bit counter includes a pass/fail data receiver receiving pass/fail data indicating whether memory cells coupled to a bit line sequentially pass or fail, and a fail bit accumulator receiving a fail bit generation signal from the pass/fail data receiver, and accumulating and counting fail bits which are generated.
US10297329B2
Methods for improving channel boosting and reducing program disturb during programming of memory cells within a memory array are described. The memory array may comprise a NAND flash memory structure, such as a vertical NAND structure or a bit cost scalable (BiCS) NAND structure. In some cases, by applying continuous voltage ramping to unselected word lines during or throughout a programming operation, the boosting of channels associated with program inhibited memory cells may be improved. In one example, the slope and timing of a Vpass waveform applied to a group of unselected word lines (e.g., the neighboring word lines of the selected word line) during the programming operation may be set based on the location of the selected word line within the memory array and the locations of the group of unselected word lines within the memory array.
US10297325B2
Apparatuses and methods have been disclosed. One such apparatus includes a plurality of memory cells that can be formed at least partially surrounding a semiconductor pillar. A select device can be coupled to one end of the plurality of memory cells and at least partially surround the pillar. An asymmetric assist device can be coupled between the select device and one of a source connection or a drain connection. The asymmetric assist device can have a portion that at least partially surrounds the pillar and another portion that at least partially surrounds the source or drain connection.
US10297314B2
An integrated circuit includes a first plurality of flip flops; a first bank of resistive memory cells, wherein each flip flop of the first plurality of flip flops uniquely corresponds to a resistive memory cell of the first bank of resistive memory cells; write circuitry configured to store data from the first plurality of flip flops to the first bank of resistive memory cells; and read circuitry configured to read data from the first bank of resistive memory cells and provide the data from the first bank for storage into the first plurality of flip flops.
US10297313B2
A phase change memory device may be provided. The phase change memory device may include a plurality of Mats, a row control block and a column control block. The row control block may be provided to each of the Mats to control word lines. The column control block may be provided to each of the Mats to control bit lines. When a near phase change memory cell adjacent to the row control block and the column control block is selected, the phase change memory cells located at different positions, which may be spaced apart from the near phase change memory cell, in the Mats except for a reference Mat may be selected.
US10297312B1
A resistive memory cell includes a barrier layer containing at least one of silicon and germanium, and a metal oxide layer including an oxide of a metal element that provides a reversible chemical reaction under a bidirectional electrical bias at an interface with the barrier material layer. The reversible chemical reaction is selected from a silicidation reaction between the barrier material layer and the metal element, a germanidation reaction between the barrier material layer and the metal element, oxidation of the metal element, and reduction of the metal element.
US10297308B2
A semiconductor device may be provided. The semiconductor device may include an address input circuit and a target address generation circuit. The address input circuit may be configured to latch a bank address and an address to generate a bank active signal and a latch address based on the execution of an active operation. The target address generation circuit may be configured to generate the latch address as a target address.
US10297293B2
A semiconductor apparatus includes a decoder configured to decode an internal command, and generate a first decoding command and a second decoding command. The semiconductor apparatus may include an output timing control circuit configured to delay the second decoding command by a predetermined cycle of the internal clock, and output a delayed decoding command. The semiconductor apparatus may include an input/output control latch circuit configured to output the internal address as a first latch address based on the second decoding command and the delayed decoding command. The semiconductor apparatus may include an input control latch circuit configured to output the internal address as a second latch address based on the first decoding command.
US10297280B1
A method according to one embodiment includes generating a y-position estimate based on a servo readback signal from a servo reader reading a servo band, retrieving or calculating a nonlinearity-correction value corresponding to the y-position estimate, adjusting the y-position estimate using the nonlinearity-correction value, and outputting the adjusted y-position estimate. A computer program product for compensating for nonlinearity in a timing based servo pattern according to one embodiment includes a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith. The computer readable storage medium is not a transitory signal per se. The program instructions are readable and/or executable by a controller to cause the controller to perform the foregoing method.
US10297279B1
Methods of planarizing materials, such as where surface topographies are created as part of a thin film device fabrication process are described. These methods find particular application in the creation of nano-sized devices, where surface topographical features can be effectively planarized without adversely creating other surface topographies and/or causing deleterious effects a material junctions. Methods include the step of depositing a sacrificial layer overlying at least a portion of a first material layer and at least a portion of a backfilled second material at a junction between the first and second materials. The sacrificial layer substantially retains the surface topography of the microelectronic device. Chemical-mechanical planarization is performed on a surface of the sacrificial layer but leaving a remainder portion of the thickness of the sacrificial layer. Then, physical or dry chemical process is conducted for removing the remainder of the sacrificial layer and at least a portion of at least one of the first and second materials.
US10297278B2
Structures and methods for fabrication servo and data heads of tape modules are provided. The servo head may have two shield layers spaced apart by a plurality of gap layers and a sensor. Similarly, the data head may have two shield layers spaced apart by a plurality of gap layers and a sensor. The distance between the shield layers of the servo head may be greater than the distance between the shield layers of the data head. The material of the gap layers may include tantalum or an alloy of nickel and chromium. The material for the gap layers permits deposition of gap layers with sufficiently small surface roughness to prevent distortion of the tape module and increase the stability of the tape module operation.
US10297277B1
A magnetic head includes a coil, and a magnetic path forming section for defining a first space for a portion of the coil to pass through. The magnetic path forming section includes a core section. The coil includes a first winding portion and a second winding portion connected in series. The first winding portion includes one or two first coil elements extending to pass through the first space, and extends once or twice around the entire perimeter of the core section. The second winding portion does not pass through the first space, and extends less than once around the entire perimeter of the core section to rotate n degrees about a center point of the core section, where n is greater than 270 and smaller than 360.
US10297273B2
Input of a conversation is received. The conversation includes at least a first user. An utterance of the conversation is analyzed to identify a dialog act attribute, an emotion attribute, and a tone attribute. The dialog act attribute, emotion attribute, and tone attribute are annotated to the utterance of the conversation. The conversation is validated based on the annotated attributes compared with a threshold. The annotated conversation and the validation of the conversation are stored.
US10297271B1
A matrix is generated that stores sinusoidal components evaluated for a given sample rate corresponding to the matrix. The matrix is then used to convert an audio signal to chroma vectors representing of a set of “chromae” (frequencies of interest). The conversion of an audio signal portion into its chromae enables more meaningful analysis of the audio signal than would be possible using the signal data alone. The chroma vectors of the audio signal can be used to perform analyzes such as comparisons with the chroma vectors obtained from other audio signals in order to identify audio matches.
US10297261B2
The present invention provides improvements to prior art audio codecs that generate a stereo-illusion through post-processing of a received mono signal. These improvements are accomplished by extraction of stereo-image describing parameters at the encoder side, which are transmitted and subsequently used for control of a stereo generator at the decoder side. Furthermore, the invention bridges the gap between simple pseudo-stereo methods, and current methods of true stereo-coding, by using a new form of parametric stereo coding. A stereo-balance parameter is introduced, which enables more advanced stereo modes, and in addition forms the basis of a new method of stereo-coding of spectral envelopes, of particular use in systems where guided HFR (High Frequency Reconstruction) is employed. As a special case, the application of this stereo-coding scheme in scalable HFR-based codecs is described.
US10297258B2
A microphone unit has a transducer, for generating an electrical audio signal from a received acoustic signal; a speech coder, for obtaining compressed speech data from the audio signal; and a digital output, for supplying digital signals representing said compressed speech data. The speech coder may be a lossy speech coder, and may contain a bank of filters with center frequencies that are non-uniformly spaced, for example mel frequencies.
US10297254B2
In various implementations, upon receiving a given voice command from a user, a voice-based trigger may be selected from a library of voice-based triggers previously used across a population of users. The library may include association(s) between each voice-based trigger and responsive action(s) previously performed in response to the voice-based trigger. The selecting may be based on a measure of similarity between the given voice command and the selected voice-based trigger. One or more responsive actions associated with the selected voice-based trigger in the library may be determined. Based on the one or more responsive actions, current responsive action(s) may be performed by the client device. Feedback associated with performance of the current responsive action(s) may be received from the user and used to alter a strength of an association between the selected voice-based trigger and the one or more responsive actions, wherein the altering includes incrementing or decrementing a count corresponding to the strength of association based on the feedback being positive or negative respectively.
US10297251B2
An automatic speech recognition system for a vehicle includes a controller configured to select an acoustic model from a library of acoustic models based on ambient noise in a cabin of the vehicle and operating parameters of the vehicle. The controller is further configured to apply the selected acoustic model to noisy speech to improve recognition of the speech.
US10297248B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for modulating language model biasing. In some implementations, context data is received. A likely context associated with a user is determined based on at least a portion of the context data. One or more language model biasing parameters based at least on the likely context associated with the user is selected. A context confidence score associated with the likely context based on at least a portion of the context data is determined. One or more language model biasing parameters based at least on the context confidence score is adjusted. A baseline language model based at least on the one or more of the adjusted language model biasing parameters is biased. The baseline language model is provided for use by an automated speech recognizer (ASR).
US10297242B2
A ukulele includes a ukulele main body and a circuit board. The ukulele main body includes a head, strings, a fret board, and a body. A front surface of the body is provided with a saddle and a bridge. The circuit board is disposed in the body. The circuit board includes a power supply module, a Bluetooth audio input module, a pickup module, a mixing module, and an audio output module. The ukulele can be played in conjunction with a smart phone accompaniment and ensure the timbre of playing.
US10297238B1
A cap for sealing the open end of a resonator tube in sonic communication with a bar percussion instrument tone bar. Not only does the resonator cap close the opening, but it provides an additional percussive playing surface and amplifies the sound produced when the tone bar is struck. This creates infinitely many new and additional sounds for this class of musical instrument.
US10297234B2
Establishing a curved virtual display surface on a physical display is provided. A process identifies dimensions of a digital object for display on a physical display of a computer system, the physical display including fixed display dimensions. Based on the identified dimensions of the digital object, the process establishes on the physical display a curved virtual display surface for displaying the digital object, and displays the digital object in the curved virtual display surface.
US10297231B2
According to an aspect, a display apparatus includes: an image display panel including a plurality of pixels and displaying an image; and a signal processor generating a second signal by multiplying signal values for a plurality of sub-pixels making up each of the plurality of pixels by a gain, the signal values being included in a first signal that is an input signal of the image. The the signal processor calculates a luminance of each of the plurality of pixels based on the signal values of the sub-pixels included in the respective pixels. The signal processor increases the gain by which the signal values of the sub-pixels of the pixel having a luminance greater than a first luminance threshold are multiplied, in accordance with the luminance of the corresponding pixel.
US10297228B2
A display apparatus includes: a display panel including a plurality of pixels; a storage configured to store a plurality of lookup tables respectively corresponding to a plurality of gamma values; and a processor configured to determine a lookup table, from among the plurality of lookup tables, to be applied to each of the plurality of pixels based on a location of each of the plurality of pixels on the display panel, and determine a brightness value of each of the plurality of pixels using the determined lookup table.
US10297213B2
An array substrate with a data line sharing structure is described. The array substrate comprises a source driver; a plurality of scan lines for receiving a scan signal wherein the scan lines comprise a plurality of odd scan lines and even scan lines; and a plurality of data lines for correspondingly receiving a data signal of the source driver wherein the data lines comprise a plurality of odd data lines and even data lines which are sequentially arranged; wherein the scan lines and the data lines are insulatedly interlaced in an array, each pixel region comprises a data line and at least two scan lines, each pixel region is composed of a plurality of sub-pixels with different color types correspondingly, and the drive polarities of the sub-pixels with the same color types in different pixel regions comprises a positive polarity and a negative polarity based on the data signal.
US10297212B2
A display device includes an image display panel on which pixels are arranged, a backlight which lights the image display panel from a rear of the image display panel, a first device which controls the backlight, and a second device which controls the image display panel. The first device generates an image signal, outputs the image signal to the second device, determines a light source lighting amount of the backlight on the basis of the image signal by blocks obtained by dividing a display surface of the image display panel and luminance distribution information on the backlight stored in advance, and controls the backlight by the light source lighting amount. The second device acquires the image signal, converts the image signal to a display signal for controlling display of the image display panel, and controls the image display panel.
US10297204B2
A shift register unit, a driving method, a gate driving circuit and a display device are provided. The shift register unit includes: a charging module, a reset module, a pull-up module, a first pull-down module, a second pull-down module and a compensation module. In a denoising phase, the first pull-down module can denoise the pull-up node and the output terminal respectively under the control of a pull-down node, a third power supply signal from a third power supply signal terminal and a switch power supply signal from a switch power supply terminal. Therefore, noises of the pull-up node and the output terminal in the shift register unit are reduced, the output effect of the shift register unit is improved and the problem of noise existing in driving process of the shift register unit is solved.
US10297202B2
An organic light-emitting display panel, a driving method thereof, and an organic light-emitting display device are provided. The organic light-emitting display panel includes a pixel driving circuit comprising an organic light-emitting element, a driving module, an initialization module, a data write-in module, and a light-emitting control module. The driving module includes a control end, a first end and a second end. The light-emitting control module is configured to transmit a signal to the second end of the driving module. The driving module is configured to drive the organic light-emitting element to emit light based on the signal transmitted by the light-emitting control module. The initialization module is configured to initialize a voltage level of the control end and a voltage level of the first end of the driving module. The data write-in module is configured to write a data signal into the control end of the driving module.
US10297200B2
A display device is provided in which a control switching element arranged in a location to which a voltage used for driving a display panel is applied may identify whether an abnormal current has occurred in the display panel in an off-situation so as to easily and accurately detect whether or not a panel defect exists, in a panel defect detection interval wherein the panel defect detection interval is an interval having no abnormal current occurring therein when no panel defect exists. A panel defect detection system and a panel defect detection method are also provided.
US10297190B2
In some examples, a device includes at least two light sources, buffer circuitry configured to receive a bit stream, and driver circuitry configured to receive the bit stream from the buffer circuitry and to drive the at least two light sources based on the bit stream. In some examples, the device further includes monitor circuitry configured to determine a voltage drop across each light source of the at least two light sources and snooping circuitry configured to read an inactive bit of the bit stream. In some examples, the snooping circuitry is further configured to read an active bit of the bit stream after reading the inactive bit and based on a value of the inactive bit and to cause the monitor circuitry to determine a voltage drop across a light source of the at least two light sources based on a value of the active bit.
US10297185B2
A controller, a source driver integrated circuit (IC), a display device, and a signal transmission method thereof. When data is received from the source driver integrated circuit and the received data is recognized, data recognition errors that would otherwise be caused by an asynchronous state between an internal clock and data can be prevented.
US10297181B2
The present invention provides a system of sensing AMOLED pixel driving property and an AMOLED display device. In the sensing stage, the anode voltage of the organic light emitting diode and the output voltage of the variable negative voltage source (21) in the AMOLED pixel driving circuit (10) are coupled to the voltage addition circuit (22), and the voltage addition circuit (22) inputs the sum up result to the analog to digital converter (23), and because the variable negative voltage source (21) adjusts according to a change of the anode voltage of the organic light emitting diode, and the variable negative voltage source (21) and the voltage addition circuit (22) act together, and then an input voltage of the analog to digital converter (23) can be adjusted to make the input voltage always be in a sensing range of the analog to digital converter (23).
US10297180B2
A display device includes a plurality of pixels. Each pixel includes two or more subpixels. The plurality of pixels includes a first subpixel configured to transmit light of a first color and a second subpixel configured to transmit light of a second color that is distinct from the first color. The display device also includes a beam steering device, and one or more compensators located between the plurality of pixels and the beam steering device and configured to change a direction of the light from the first subpixel and transmit the light toward the beam steering device and change a direction of the light from the second subpixel and transmit the light toward the beam steering device.
US10297178B2
A transparent display device attached to a predetermined product, displaying article information in the product, advertisement, etc. is disclosed. The transparent display device comprises a frame including an opening; a transparent display panel arranged at the opening; and a control module arranged in an area of the frame to control the transparent display panel, wherein the frame in which the transparent display panel and the control module are arranged is provided to cover a front surface of a predetermined product so as to form a door unit of the predetermined product, and is rotatably moved when the inside of the predetermined product is opened and closed.
US10297177B1
A banner support supports a banner or flag unfurled on the pole. When a preset trigger wind load is exceeded, the banner bracket rotates away from the direction of the wind so as to limit the stress on the pole. The mechanism which enables bracket rotation comprises a disk-shaped cam with a spring-loaded plunger extending from the support arm that biases a cam follower into a proximal cam detent. Subject to the restraint of the cam follower, the cam rotates around a transversely axial cam shaft connected to the support arm. The cam is rigidly attached to the banner bracket, which rotates along with the cam. When the preset wind load is exceeded, the cam follower is forced out of the cam detent, allowing the cam and the connected banner bracket to rotate away from the wind direction. As the banner turns away from the wind, the wind stress decreases, allowing the spring plunger to force the cam follower back into the cam detent, thereby restoring the banner to its rest position.
US10297176B1
A swinging banner display having a tube handle that doubles as a container for the banner when not being displayed. The banner is attached to a rod which is rotatably attached to the tube handle. The tube handle is sized to fit within a hand but large enough to hold the banner, shaft and disc when the banner is furled. A rotatable disc inside the tube handle has a knob on the perimeter that engages with ribs on the inside of the tube handle to make a rattling noise when the banner is rotated.
US10297171B2
Label systems for cold environment use and application are described. The label systems comprise a first label assembly adhered to an article subjected to cold temperatures and a second label assembly that is readily applied to the first label assembly, and particularly when the first label assembly is at a relatively cold temperature. The label systems described are particularly well suited for labeling blood bags and other articles subjected to cold storage.
US10297166B2
The disclosed embodiments provide a system that improves learner engagement in online discussions. During operation, the system selects an experience level for use in moderating answers to a question submitted to an online forum. Next, the system matches the experience level to a first subset of users in a set of potential respondents to the question. The system then improves an engagement of the first subset of users with the online forum by generating output that targets the first subset of users with the question, prior to displaying the question to a first remainder of the potential respondents that does not include the first subset of users.
US10297159B2
A method for providing air traffic control (ATC) message data onboard an aircraft is provided. The method identifies ATC commands associated with text-based messages, by at least one processor onboard the aircraft, wherein the ATC commands comprise instructions to follow one or more particular procedures associated with the ATC audio messages and the ATC direct text messages; identifies, by the at least one processor, graphical content associated with the ATC commands; and presents an ATC graphical rendering environment comprising at least the graphical content, via at least one aircraft onboard display communicatively coupled to the at least one processor.
US10297155B2
Provided is an object detector capable of suppressing any decrease in accuracy of object detection under a low illuminance environment such as nighttime or in tunnels, whereby suppressing a failure of Adaptive Cruise Control, pre-crash safety systems, and the like. The object detector includes: a distance information calculation unit 105 configured to calculate distance information to an object around a vehicle from an image captured by a plurality of imaging units 102, 103; an extraction unit 106 configured to extract at least an object existing in a long distance region away from the vehicle and having a specific color from among objects in the image based on the distance information; and an output unit 108 configured to output the distance information to the object having been extracted by the extraction unit 106.
US10297148B2
Examples include a network computer system and/or service which operates to remotely monitor vehicles to detect and characterize driving actions of drivers with respect to specific road segments of a roadway, enabling driving actions performed by multiple drivers at a specific road segment to be characterized and modeled. Models can inform municipalities about potential traffic hazards or other safety challenges. Individual drivers can also be measured against the model to help understand driver performance. Validating vehicle data against baseline values can also detect spoofing of that data.
US10297140B2
Obtaining a target location of a user associated with a body worn device (50) that receiving information related to a condition of user and communicates an indication of the condition to a server (12) over a network (24). The method including: providing a network (24) formed of a plurality of lighting units (42, 32) and a database (22) for maintaining information describing a geographic location of each of the plurality of lighting units, each lighting unit transmitting a unique identifier; providing the body worn device with a lighting unit identifier sensor (52), the sensor receiving lighting unit identifiers of at least one of the plurality of lighting units; the body worn device communicating the received lighting unit identifiers with the indication in a message to the server via the network; and the database providing a geographic location of the one or more lighting units, the geographic location corresponding to the target location of the body worn device.
US10297136B2
Head-mounting display, notification apparatus, notification system, notification method, and program
There is provided a head-mounted display, a notification apparatus, a notification system, a notification method, and a program that allow a person not wearing a head-mounted display to know that a user still continues to wear a head-mounted display after a notification that a wearing time of the head-mounted display of this user has exceeded a predetermined time. A wearing time determination block determines a wearing time of the head-mounted display of the user. A notification block executes a first notification to the user if the wearing time has exceeded a first time and, when the wearing time has exceeded a second time longer than the first time, and executes a second notification to a person not wearing the head-mounted display.
US10297124B2
An interface component for insertion in a certain-sized connection box placed for another component such as a switch or other electrical mechanism. The interface component may bring in new capabilities plus maintain the capabilities of the removed component. The box need not be removed, or if the boxed is removed the structure or space encompassing the box need not be enlarged. Further, no new wiring is necessarily needed. This placement or substitution may be particularly applicable to rooms of hotels, motels, and other similar facilities. Neither time nor expense of redoing structure to hold a larger box or provide more space or wiring is needed. In many cases, there is not adequate space to add components for providing additional capabilities to a room.
US10297123B2
A haptic zipper is provided. The haptic zipper includes a first chain, a second chain opposing the first chain, a slider, an actuator coupled to the slider, and a controller coupled to the actuator. The slider is coupled to the first chain and the second chain to mesh or disengage opposing teeth of the first and second chains. The controller is configured to process an input signal including data related to a haptic effect, generate a haptic drive signal based on the data, and transmit the haptic drive signal to the actuator to render the haptic effect.
US10297119B1
An electronic device can include one or more actuators. The actuator or actuators may be operably connected to a feedback surface. Movement is produced in at least one actuator that causes an audio output. The movement in the actuator(s) by itself may produce the desired audio output. The movement in the actuator(s) can produce a force in at least one direction that produces movement in the feedback surface, and the movement in the feedback surface produces audio output. The movement in the actuator may also provide a haptic output to a user.
US10297112B2
An apparatus for implementing a game having a deterministic component and a non-deterministic component wherein a player uses the game through at least one player interface unit. Each player interface unit generates a player record indicating player-initiated events. A random number generator provides a series of pseudo-random numbers and a rules library stores indexed rules for one or more games. An interface registry stores mapping records where the mapping records are used to associate the player-initiated events to pre-selected rules in the rules library. A control means is coupled to the player interface to receive the output of the player interface unit, coupled to the interface registry, the rules library, and the random number generator. The control means processes the player record and returns an output record to the player interface unit where the output record is determined by executing the game's rules with reference to the pseudo-random numbers and predefined combinatorial algorithms for selecting sets of the pseudo-random numbers. In various embodiments, random numbers may be generated for use in a particular game or set of games, but not for use in all games.
US10297101B2
A gaming system is disclosed which comprises a game controller arranged to implement a game, at least one game meter arranged to obtain game related information, and an interface device arranged to facilitate transfer of at least some of the obtained game related information to a portable data storage device in response to a transfer instruction. A corresponding method of monitoring a gaming device is also disclosed.
US10297092B2
One example dynamic display system includes: (a) a vehicle including steering, an accelerator, brakes, sensors recording sensor data, a display, a processor, and memory; (b) a display program operatively coupled to the processor and configured to: determine a user hindrance rating based on the sensor data, and select instructions from a pool of instructions based on the hindrance rating and a user-selectable fidelity level, the pool of instructions including visual cues, and audio cues.
US10297087B2
An exemplary merged reality scene capture system (“system”) receives a first frame set of surface data frames from a plurality of three-dimensional (“3D”) capture devices disposed with respect to a real-world scene so as to have a plurality of different vantage points of the real-world scene. Based on the first frame set, the system generates a transport stream that includes color and depth video data streams for each of the 3D capture devices. Based on the transport stream, the system generates entity description data representative of a plurality of entities included within a 3D space of a merged reality scene. The plurality of entities includes a virtual object, the real-world object, and virtual viewpoints into the 3D space from which a second frame set of surface data frames are to be rendered representing color and depth data for both the virtual and the real-world objects.
US10297081B2
A method includes defining a virtual space associated with a first user. The virtual space is associated with a first head-mounted device (HMD). The virtual space includes an avatar object associated with a second user. The method includes receiving line-of-sight data on the second user, wherein the second user is associated with a second HMD. The method includes receiving sound data that is based on utterance of the second user at a timing different from that of the line-of-sight data. The method includes synchronizing a timing of controlling the avatar object in accordance with the line-of-sight data and a timing of outputting sound that is based on the sound data from the first HMD. The method includes controlling the avatar object in accordance with the line-of-sight data based on the synchronized timing. The method includes outputting the sound that is based on the synchronized timing.
US10297080B2
A computer-implemented method of optimizing an automatically meshable shape is provided. The method includes the steps of: providing a continuous boundary of the automatically meshable shape, the continuous boundary being defined by a spline formed by two or more spline segments, wherein each segment has a terminal point at each end of the segment; parameterizing shape properties of the segments such that selected ones of the shape properties can be varied under operation of an optimization algorithm; linking each segment to its immediately adjacent segments such that the terminal points of the segment remain coincident with the terminal points of its immediately adjacent segments under operation of the optimization algorithm; and using the optimization algorithm to vary selected ones of the shape properties of the segments, whereby the spline defines an adjusted boundary that remains continuous so that the shape remains automatically meshable.
US10297077B1
Systems and methods for implementing hidden mesh (or stencil mesh) graphics rendering techniques for use in applications such as head mounted displays (“HMDs”) are described. Exemplary systems and algorithms are disclosed for masking or eliminating pixels in an image from the list of pixels to be rendered, based on the observation that a significant number of pixels in the periphery of HMD images cannot be seen, due to the specific details of the optical and display/electronics performance of each particular implementation.
US10297066B2
A computer implemented method and a computer system for animating parts of a virtual object in a virtual world, accesses joint data for each joint of a chain of joints associated with parts of a virtual object, joint data including length data defining a vector length for a vector from the joint to a next joint, the length data corresponding to a length of a part in the virtual world; accesses data for a target curve for use in defining possible target locations for the joints of the parts of the virtual object, and retrieves or estimates a length of the curve; and processes the joint data to determine a total length of the vectors for the joints of the chain using the length data for the vectors; to determine scaled vectors by determining a scaled length for the vector for each joint of the chain based on the length of the curve and the total length of the vectors for the joints of the chain; to fit the scaled vectors for the joints of the chain to the curve by rotating the scaled vectors, with a first joint in the chain fitted to a start point on the curve and the last joint in the chain fitted at or near an end point on the curve; rescale the scaled vector for each joint of the chain to have the vector length; to set the first joint in the chain to the start point on the curve; and to determine locations for the joints by rotating the vectors to fit the last joint in the chain to the end point of the curve and to determine the locations of intermediate joints by distributing vector rotations for the intermediate joints among the vectors.
US10297059B2
An image processor provides a combined image of an object from first and second cameras. The image processor receives a first image from a first camera and a second image from a second camera. The first and second images each include a field of view and metadata associated with the image. The image processor determines whether a combined image of the first and second images will be viewed by a person or a machine. If the combined image is to be processed by a machine, the first and second metadata are included with the combined image and sent to the machine. If the combined image is to be viewed by a person, the combined image includes a subset of the metadata so that the image is not too large or too cluttered.
US10297055B2
An image processing apparatus includes a physical property parameter acquisition unit and a texture control unit. The physical property parameter acquisition unit is configured to acquire a physical property parameter on a subject in an image. The texture control unit is configured to control a texture of the subject in the image by using the physical property parameter acquired by the physical property parameter acquisition unit.
US10297040B2
An image processing method for tracking an object, the method includes: specifying a first range in which a first target is searched for and a second range in which a second target is searched for in a next frame by referring to a storage device that stores past frames captured by a capturing device; changing the first range and/or the second range in the next frame such that an area in which the first range and the second range specified in the next frame overlap each other is less than a predetermined value in a case where the overlapping area is equal to or greater than the predetermined value; and searching for, in the changed first range and the changed second range, and specifying a region corresponding to the first target and a region corresponding to the second target in the next frame.
US10297039B2
With a recognition device of the present invention, when a target component that is an imaging target is moved in a direction from one to another of an upper limit imaging position and a lower limit imaging position, a protruding section of the target component is imaged at each of a predetermined pitch (0.1 mm). Then, it is determined whether it is possible to recognize the position of the protruding section of the target component based on image data of each pitch (O: recognition possible, X: recognition not possible). Here, from among imaging positions (H4 to H10) according to image data for which it was determined to be possible to recognize the position of the protruding section of the target component, a position (H7) that is at a central point between a position closest to the upper limit imaging position (H4) and a position closest to the lower limit imaging position (H10) is decided as a recommended imaging position. By this, it is possible to image the protruding section close to a central point inside the emitting range of the light emitted from the light source, meaning that the protruding section is appropriately imaged and the position of the protruding section can be appropriately recognized.
US10297036B2
An information processing apparatus acquires a 2D image as a definition target of depth information, and accepts, for the acquired 2D image, an input of point information for designating two points on the image and an input of line segment information indicating a first line segment as a standard of a depth. The apparatus sets, for a point on a second line segment connecting the two points on the 2D image indicated by the point information, depth information based on the first line segment indicated by the line segment information.
US10297034B2
A method performed by an electronic device is described. The method includes obtaining a first image from a first camera, the first camera having a first focal length and a first field of view. The method also includes obtaining a second image from a second camera, the second camera having a second focal length and a second field of view disposed within the first field of view. The method further includes aligning at least a portion of the first image and at least a portion of the second image to produce aligned images. The method additionally includes fusing the aligned images based on a diffusion kernel to produce a fused image. The diffusion kernel indicates a threshold level over a gray level range. The method also includes outputting the fused image. The method may be performed for each of a plurality of frames of a video feed.
US10297029B2
A system and method involving performing image classification on the image according to a position of a subject in the image; selecting, from a plurality of subject position templates, a subject position template for the image according to a result of the image classification, wherein each of the plurality of subject position templates is associated with a pre-defined position parameter, and each of the plurality of subject position templates is configured with a weight distribution field according to the pre-defined position parameter, the weight distribution field representing a probability that each pixel in the image belongs to a foreground or a background; and performing image segmentation according to the weight distribution field in the selected subject position template to segment the subject from the image.
US10297024B2
Systems and methods for determining a breast region in a medical image are provided. The methods may include obtaining a first image relating to the breast region, determining a first region including a first plurality of pixels in the breast region, determining a second region including a second plurality of pixels relating to an edge of the breast region, and determining the breast region by combining the first region and the second region. The second plurality of pixels may include at least a portion of the first plurality of pixels.
US10297019B2
A pill verification system obtains a prescription filled at a pharmacy and gathers information of the pills being dispensed for a remote pharmacist to verify the prescription. As pills are dispensed to a pill vial to fill the prescription, a pill imaging system captures images of the pills, and a pill vial imaging system captures an image of the pill vial. The prescription, pill images, and pill vial image are transmitted to a remote verification system. A pharmacist is presented with the prescription, images of substantially all pills filling the prescription, and the pill vial of the prescription to verify the prescription is correct. The remote verification system may present prescriptions filled from many different pharmacies, permitting increased rate of verification and one pharmacist to support many pharmacies. The pharmacist's verification is transmitted to the pill verification system and displayed for a technician to complete verification of the pills.
US10297018B2
A method and apparatus for grading leather based upon the size and spacing of the breaks in the leather. All or a portion of a hide is fed to a fixture that compresses a local area of the hide into a concave shape. The outer side of the hide is compressed and the inner side of the hide is expanded to cause breaks to be manifested in a local area. The local area of the hide is scanned with a digitizing profilometer that measures the depth of the breaks as the hide is fed through the fixture. The depth data measured by the digitizing profilometer is recorded by a controller. The depth data is then correlated with location data representing the local area scanned to develop a map of the break.
US10296997B2
The present application discloses an image-based information acquisition method and apparatus. The information acquisition method comprises: acquiring a first image; determining a second image matching the first image from a preset image library; presenting first information related to a commercial item if the second image is associated with commercial item information; and presenting second information related to a video if the second image is associated with video information. The information acquisition method of the present application can directly use images as references for acquiring information, thereby implementing the objective of improving information acquisition efficiency and accuracy.
US10296994B2
A system is described herein that facilitates the easy scheduling and conducting of prison visitations. The system provides a remotely-accessible means for visitors to authenticate themselves, check the availability of those they wish to visit, and schedule a visit with that individual. As part of this process, the system tracks the availability of prison inmates as well as the devices and visit sites that are available to those inmates. In this manner, the system can quickly identify the availability of different inmates in order to provide on-demand scheduling capabilities to potential visitors. The system is connected to multiple facilities as well as public networks, and therefore can be remotely accessed. Additionally, the system also functions to monitor visits while they are in progress, as well as to store visit recordings for future review. Because the system is networked, remote monitors can access the review system in order to monitor visits or review recordings. The system also employs rigorous authentication and other security measures to ensure the safety and security of the visitors, the inmates, the staff, as well as others within the prison facility.
US10296988B2
An electric power system or power grid is optimized using a computer-implemented tool the represents in computer memory the optimization function and at least one constraint, which the processor operates upon using a linear programming solver algorithm. The constraints are represented in memory as data structures that include both real and reactive power terms, corresponding to at least one of a power flow model and a transmission line model. The transmission line model is represented using a piecewise linear representation. The power flow model may also include for each node in the power system a real power loss term representing transmission line loss allocated to that node.
US10296980B2
The disclosed embodiments include methods and systems for providing digital identification cards are disclosed. In one aspect, the disclosed embodiments may provide digital identification cards, such as proof of insurance cards, to mobile devices that are compliant with one or more standards set by identification-requiring organizations, such as a department of motor vehicles. Certain disclosed embodiments may update digital identification cards based on changes to user information or formatting information associated with one or more identification-requiring organizations.
US10296971B2
A system can include program instructions embodied with the computer-readable storage medium and executable by a processor to cause the system to: automatically determine to make a bid for resources to add to a computer network of a client receive, from a virtual marketplace, a communication indicating that the bid satisfies an offer for additional resources made by an infrastructure provider gateway; successfully negotiate a link with the infrastructure provider gateway such that the additional resources are thereby usable by the client as part of the computer network of the client integrate the additional resources with the computer network of the client and maintain the link with the infrastructure provider gateway until a period of time expires.
US10296966B2
Systems and methods for facilitating WiFi transactions are provided. A consumer device logs in to a merchant's WiFi network and a tab for the consumer is opened up with the merchant. The merchant adds items ordered by the consumer to the tab until the consumer decides to close the tab. The consumer can close the tab by logging off the merchant's WiFi network, pressing a button on a mobile device indicating that he or she wants to settle the tab, or specifying that the tab should be closed after a certain amount of time.
US10296965B2
A system and method for configuring a device include determining a plurality of configuration settings for the device. The configuration settings are saved in a configuration file, and a sales order for the device is generated. The configuration file is assigned to the sales order. Based on the sales order, the configuration file is retrieved and applied to the configuration settings to the device.
US10296959B1
Systems and methods are provided for automated analysis of audio recordings and/or automated recommendations of audio recordings. The audio recordings may be automatically analyzed based on power, frequency, tempo, complexity, dimensionality, other audio features, and/or some combination thereof. Automated recommendations of audio recordings may be provided based at least on the variability levels. User interfaces may be provided to receive user feedback of preferred audio recordings and to select audio recordings to recommend based on the user feedback and the automated analysis. The automated recommendations may be further based on user purchase data and/or listening history.
US10296957B2
Techniques are provided herein for providing information during a life cycle of a user's engagement with a product or service. A wireless device is configured to, in response to processing a computer readable artifact after the user has acquired the product or service, transmit a request for first information pertaining to the product or service. A computer is configured to retrieve the first information without regard for the life cycle of the product or service. The computer is further configured to retrieve supplemental information pertaining to the product or service, and provide the first information together with the supplemental information to the wireless device. The supplemental information retrieved varies depending on a current state of the life cycle.
US10296952B2
In some examples, a marketplace system receives information from multiple service providers as part of onboarding of the multiple service providers with the marketplace system. Responsive to the onboarding, a cloud service created by the respective service provider is synchronized with the marketplace system. A marketplace catalog is linked with catalogs of the service providers, the linking including aggregating content of the catalogs into the marketplace catalog. Responsive to a request from a requester received through a portal of the marketplace system, at least one cloud service is identified using the marketplace catalog based on at least one search criterion of the request.
US10296951B2
An e-fundraizing system includes a mobile device and a server. The mobile device produces, or is configured to respond to, an indicator of one or more specific donation amounts. The mobile device sends a first message to the server in response to the indicator. The mobile device receives a second message in response to the sent first message. The mobile device receives a user input based on the received second message. The mobile device sends a third message to a server in response to the user input. A user of the mobile device donates a specific amount based on the sent third message.
US10296941B2
A system for distributing content includes a content distribution platform (CDP) analysis module configured to determine an optimal combination of one or more CDP components for distributing a specified content item based on at least one content item profile. A method of distributing content includes determining an optimal combination of one or more content distribution platform (CDP) components for distributing a specified content item based on at least one content profile.
US10296937B2
A method and system are provided for targeting specific users with specific requested actions to be performed by the user and verified by any methods on behalf of an advertiser within an Internet display advertising campaign. The system discloses techniques for receiving an advertiser's requested actions and corresponding definitions of what constitutes a satisfaction of the action. The disclosure also details techniques for determining if and when and to what degree a requested action has been completed or satisfied by the targeted user, and details corresponding techniques for compensating the user and any other real or virtual entity who had contributed to the satisfaction of the requested action. The system implements a network of sensors that can aid in the determination of if and when and to what degree a requested action has been completed or satisfied. The network of sensors registers sensor recordings within a specialized sensor recording marketplace.
US10296927B2
A method includes receiving data encoding search results from at least one search engine, each of the at least one search engine applying an ontology in a corresponding social-media channel, the ontology refined to account for at least one healthcare product and at least one event; retrieving a database that includes relationships between identified event and healthcare indication, the database being developed from historical sales activities of healthcare products and healthcare indications for the healthcare products; and analyzing the search results by: determining at least one event identified by the search results; comparing the at least one event with the retrieved database to determine a corresponding healthcare indication; identifying a healthcare product with the determined corresponding healthcare indication; and correlating the search results about the identified healthcare product with historical sales activities of the identified healthcare product to determine a sales trend for the identified healthcare product during a projected period.
US10296924B2
A computer-implemented method for providing performance indicators of destination documents includes identifying a referral document to a destination document, where the referral document comprising a source of at least one visitor to the destination document. The method also includes extracting referral keywords from content of the referral document, the referral keywords corresponding to a referral context of the referral document. The method further includes determining a degree of correlation between the referral document and the destination document based on a comparison between the referral keywords and destination keywords, the destination keywords corresponding to destination context of the destination document. Additionally, the method includes providing one or more performance indicators to a user based on the correlation between the referral document and the destination document, where the one or more performance indicators correspond to a performance metric that quantifies interactions between visitors and the destination document.
US10296922B2
Techniques for customized deployment of offers are provided. Customized offers are packaged into a description, a presentation, and offer evaluation execution logic and deployed to an enterprise system. Portions of the package's execution logic have access to some resources of the enterprise system. Once the customized offers are deployed, they can be pushed or pulled to point-of-sale devices for redemption processing during transactions with consumers.
US10296918B1
A computer-implemented technique provides a compromised payment card risk assessment. The technique involves gathering, by processing circuitry, compromised payment card data. The technique further involves identifying, by the processing circuitry, a set of compromised payment cards from the compromised payment card data. The technique further involves providing, in response to identifying the set of compromised payment cards and by the processing circuitry, a compromised payment card assessment report which includes a set of payment card entries corresponding to the set of compromised payment cards. Each payment card entry includes (i) identification data which identifies a respective compromised payment card and (ii) a score which indicates an estimated likelihood that the respective compromised payment card will actually be used for fraud. Such scores may be based on summations of different sub-scores and serve as overall numerical measures of risk.
US10296917B2
The present disclosure provides an authenticity verifying system capable of generating renewed database and updating unlock number upon occurrence of information leak, and comprises product (1) having lock device (11) with infrared ray transceiving unit (12) and keypad (14), and scratch card (13) with password and product serial number provided thereon; a manufacturer's verifying server (2) for verifying product authenticity through a commercial communication network; and an unlock number change device (3) responsive to leak of information stored in server (2) for downloading, from server (2), predetermined password that matches product (1) and renewed unlock number newly matched to the product serial number. Further, the present disclosure provides a method for verifying product authenticity through acquiring an unlock number, and comprises performing an unlock number acquiring process and applying the unlock number acquired to lock device (11) of product (1) to unlock lock device (11).
US10296911B2
Provided herein are techniques for rescuing a commercial transaction identified as suspect, possibly based on suspicion of fraud or due to the risk associated with the commercial transaction. Various implementations include systems and methods that can rescue a purchase transaction involving a purchasing party (hereafter, a “purchaser”) and a selling party (hereafter, a merchant”). The item or items being purchased in the purchase transaction can include goods, a services, or property interests (e.g., real, intellectual, or otherwise). Particular implementations can facilitate the rescuing of a purchase transaction that has been declined, canceled or suspended (e.g., pending further review) by an involved party (e.g., the selling party) based on that party's concern (e.g., fraud or high risk) with respect to the purchase transaction.
US10296910B1
A technique for providing a pay-by-name payment experience is disclosed. A point-of-sale (POS) system at a store receives information identifying an account with a central server from a payment card using a short-range wireless technology. In response to that, it obtains information regarding the account, including a person's name associated with the account, using the received information. It also accepts a name from a specific consumer in the vicinity. At this point, it determines whether the name accepted from the specific consumer and the name associated with the account are identical. If it determines that the two names are identical, it checks-in the consumer to the store.
US10296909B1
Systems and methods for processing checks using 2D barcodes are provided. A user submits a digital image of a check that includes a 2D barcode. The 2D barcode has embedded positional information of one or more check features which can be decoded and compared to the check features optically identified on the digital image of the check. From this, a set of rotational and scaling adjustments can be computed by comparing estimated positional information with the positional information of the one or more check features retrieved from the barcode. A more accurate representation of the check is then produced by applying the set of rotational and scaling adjustments to the digital image of the check. Once a more accurate representation of the check has been produced, the check can be electronically processed using a routing transit number found on the check.
US10296902B2
A payment device with data entry keys which are obscured from view when not in use. An example payment device includes a plurality of data entry keys for recording data during a transaction, and a backlight for illuminating the data entry keys. A secure controller is configured to activate the backlight to reveal locations of the data entry keys for data entry, receive and encrypt entered data from the data entry keys, and to deactivate the backlight following the data entry.
US10296898B2
A transaction card processing and activation system comprising the identification of a unique identifier corresponding to an aggregate of transaction cards of affiliated or non-affiliated card issuers and the activation of each transaction card corresponding to the unique identifier of the aggregate irrespective of the number, types, or card issuers of the transaction cards. Additionally, the present invention allows a point of sale entity to initiate the activation of each of the multiple, disparate transaction cards in the aggregate by merely processing the unique identifier associated with the aggregate.
US10296896B2
A wearable device and a data interaction method that is based on said wearable device is disclosed. The wearable device can comprise a card reading chip, a micro control chip and a chip connected thereto. The card reading chip can be used to carry out a first data write operation on the payment account of the chip as controlled by the micro control chip, such that the payment account has the recharging data. The chip can be used to deduct the interaction data from the payment account. The wearable device can be used to replace a conventional swipe card reader in recharging and interaction, and the portability of the wearable device can greatly improve the convenience of an e-card solution.
US10296894B2
Systems and methods are provided for facilitating peer-to-peer payment transactions using mobile devices. According to certain embodiments, a financial account for providing funds for a payment transaction is determined. User input including a payment amount for the payment transaction is received and a QR code that represents the payment amount is generated. The QR code is displayed on the display of a mobile device for purposes of scanning and processing by a second mobile device.
US10296889B2
Various techniques are provided for carrying out peer-to-peer financial transactions using one or more electronic devices. In one embodiment, a request for payment is transmitted from a first device to a second device using a near field communication (NFC) interface. In response to the request, the second device may transmit payment information to the first device. The first device may select a crediting account and, using a suitable communication protocol, may communicate the received payment information and selected crediting account to one or more external financial servers configured to process and determine whether the payment may be authorized. If the payment is authorized, a payment may be credited to the selected crediting account. In a further embodiment, a device may include a camera configured to obtain an image of a payment instrument. The device may further include an application to extract payment information from the acquired image.
US10296881B2
Systems and methods for providing content provider charged web content to a mobile device are disclosed. A mobile routing server receives a request for a mobile device to access web content associated with a content provider. The mobile routing server determines whether the request is associated with a provider-charged gateway. If the request is associated with the provider-charged gateway, the mobile routing server provides access to the web content via the provider-charged gateway and signals a billing server to charge an account associated with the content provider for data charges associated with the access to the web content. If the request is not associated with the provider-charged gateway, the mobile routing server provides access to the web content via a regular Internet gateway and signals the billing server to charge an account associated with the mobile device for the data charges associated with the access to the web content.
US10296879B2
A method for distributing content. The method distributes a single media storage structure to a device (e.g., a computer, portable player, etc.). The media storage structure includes first and second pieces of encrypted content. Based on whether the device is allowed to access the first piece of content, the second piece of content, or both, the method provides the device with a set of keys for decrypting the pieces of the content that the device is able to access. The provided set of keys might include one or more keys for decrypting only one of the two encrypted pieces of content. Alternatively, it might include one or more keys for decrypting both encrypted pieces of content. For instance, the selected set of keys might include a first key for decrypting the first encrypted piece and a second key for decrypting the second encrypted piece.
US10296875B1
An automated banking terminal for facilitating a financial transaction is provided. The automated banking terminal includes a processor, a display for presenting a set of customer menu options, and a communication interface. The automated banking terminal also includes expansion slots which have a mechanical interface and an electrical interface. Expansion modules may be connected to the processor through the expansion slots. An expansion module may be a cash dispensing module, a cash receiving and counting module, a check receiving module, a printer, a scanner, a biometric interface, a signature pad, an account card reader, or an account card programmer. The processor of the automated banking terminal is configured to detect the expansion module and determine additional menu options to supplement the customer menu options based on detecting the expansion module.
US10296871B2
Systems and methods for dynamically creating collaborative teams and managing collaborative work of a team are generally disclosed herein. One example embodiment includes the dynamic creation of a collaborative team by creating an association between team members via a managing module. The managing module may be capable of managing, among other things, team members on a team, tasks and goals of each member of the team, as well as documentation associated with the team. In some embodiments, the managing module may use a chat or messaging protocol to manage collaborative modifications to documents of the team.
US10296867B2
A logistics management system (LMS) may include receiving, at a server, a reservation request from a requestor for an allotment on an air carrier's cargo hold for a designated route and date range; assigning, by the server, an allotment category for the requested allotment; generating, by the server, an allotment rate for the requested allotment based, at least in part, upon the designated route and the allotment category; and communicating, from the server to the requestor, the generated allotment rate.
US10296858B2
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with allocation of retail goods in a warehouse to warehouse transfer based on warehouse inventory data are described. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request for allocation of a quantity of an item sold in multiple types, where the quantity of items is to be transferred from a source warehouse to a destination warehouse. An allocation method is selected from a plurality of allocation methods. Each allocation method specifies a subset of warehouse inventory data to be used to generate allocation ratios. The method includes reading the subset warehouse inventory data specified by the selected allocation method; generating allocation ratios by determining a contribution of each of the multiple types to the subset of warehouse inventory data; and generating allocation quantities for each respective type in the multiple types by applying the respective allocation ratios to the quantity.
US10296857B2
The present disclosure describes a communication device and server configured to provide a user a relative event impact map display depicting a plurality of items impacted by an event or a portion of a network impacted by the event. The network can not only be a supply and/or logistics chain but also a computer network, a telecommunications network, transportation network, and power grid.
US10296853B2
An interactive rapid response Internet accessed air travel management system. The system includes a web-based planning and reservation interface system and an interactive access device. The system responds to details of a member's desired travel, to thereafter act in real time to contact the domains of associated travel service providers to arrange for every aspect of the member's trip, from airline and hotel reservations, ticket issuance, and ground transportation, to restaurant and theater reservations, and any other travel related needs of the member. The system stores identification information to verify access device possession to prohibit unauthorized use of the system and to provide security pre-clearance to system members.
US10296850B2
The present invention consists of a computer-implemented system and method for automatically analyzing and coding documents into content categories suitable for high cost, high yield settings where quality and efficiency of classification are essential. A prototypical example application field is legal document predictive coding for purposes of e-discovery and litigation (or litigation readiness) where the automated classification of documents as “responsive” or not must be (a) efficient, (b) accurate, and (c) defensible in court. Many text classification technologies exist but they focus on the relatively simple steps of using a training method on training data, producing a model and testing it on test data. They invariably do not address effectively and simultaneously key quality assurance requirements. The invention applies several data design and validation steps that ensure quality and removal of all possible sources of document classification error or deficiencies. The invention employs multiple classification methods, preprocessing methods, visualization and organization of results, and explanation of models which further enhance predictive quality, but also ease of use of models and user acceptance. The invention can be applied to practically any field where text classification is desired.
US10296847B1
Presenting ancestral origin information, comprising: receiving a request to display ancestry data of an individual; obtaining ancestry composition information of the individual, the ancestry composition information including information pertaining to a proportion of the individual's genotype data that is deemed to correspond to a specific ancestry; and presenting the ancestry composition information to be displayed.
US10296845B2
The present invention provides an attribute estimation system capable of acquiring an image of a person whose attributes are to be estimated accurately and informing the person of an attribute estimation result. The attribute estimation system (1) includes: a mirror (11) equipped with an information display terminal (12); and an attribute estimation device (3). The information display terminal (12) includes an image acquisition unit. The information display terminal (12) is disposed on the mirror (11) in such a manner that the information display terminal (12) can display information on a surface of the mirror (11) and that the image acquisition unit can acquire an image of a user of the mirror (11). The information display terminal (12) and the attribute estimation device (3) can be connected to each other via a communication line network (2). The attribute estimation device (3) generates attribute information estimated from the acquired image of the user of the mirror (11). The information display terminal (12) displays the generated attribute information on the surface of the mirror (11).
US10296841B1
Systems and methods for content selection with first and second recommendation engines are disclosed herein. The system can include a memory include a content library database and a model database. The system can include a user device having a first network interface and a first I/O subsystem. The system can include one or more servers that can include a packet selection system and a presentation system. These one or more servers can: receive response data from the user device; provide received response data to a first recommendation engine; alert a second recommendation engine when a selected next node is a placeholder node; retrieve at least one statistical model relevant to selection of next node content; and select next node content based on an output of the at least one statistical model.
US10296838B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for changing alarm information based on weather, and more particularly to an apparatus and method for changing alarm information based on weather, which can collect locations, time and weather information for a path, routinely used by a user, and a destination and actively adjust alarm time based on a weather condition, which can measure the gap between a weather forecast and real-time observation data, determine whether a gap notification condition has been satisfied and provide notification to a user, and which can collect location information and weather information via a report message, determine the urgency level of a disaster situation and generate a disaster information list that enables the disaster situation to be effectively determined.
US10296837B2
A system and method for analyzing documents, such as posts, on-line reviews and comments from people based on topics of the documents, to determine general sentiment of users is disclosed. Topics from the documents and their corresponding sentiment polarities are extracted. The documents are regarded to be constituted by a series of topics. The sentiment for a topic is represented by a quadruple (k, so, h, i), where k is the topic, so is the sentiment opinion, h is the comment or post holder, and i is the document. A quintuple (k, sup, p, n, ne) is used to illustrate the topics and corresponding sentiments and is stored in S, where sup indicates the frequency of the topic, and p (positive), n (negative) and ne (neutral) are different types of opinions of the users. From the quintuple set S, every topic is related to three kinds of sentiment opinions (positive, negative, and neutral), enabling determination of popular topics in documents as well as the users' sentiment polarities.
US10296827B2
A deep neural network to which data category information is added is established locally, to-be-identified data is input to an input layer of the deep neural network generated based on the foregoing data category information, and information of a category to which the to-be-identified data belongs is acquired, where the information of the category is output by an output layer of the deep neural network. A deep neural network is established based on data category information, such that category information of to-be-identified data is conveniently and rapidly obtained using the deep neural network, thereby implementing a category identification function of the deep neural network, and facilitating discovery of an underlying law of the to-be-identified data according to the category information of the to-be-identified data.
US10296823B2
Associative memory systems, methods and computer program products are provided. An associative memory system includes a distributed associative memory base including a network of networks of associative memory networks. A respective associative memory network includes associations among a respective observer memories and a plurality of observed memories that are observed by the respective observer memory. Ones of the associative memory networks are physically and/or logically independent from other ones of the associative memory networks. A processing system is configured to observe associations into and imagine associations from, the distributed associative memory base using multiple streaming queues that correspond to respective ones of multiple rows in the associative memory networks. The processing system is further configured to determine a cognitive distance between a term and a class of terms, the cognitive distance being returned responsive to a query of the distributed associative memory base.
US10296820B2
A transaction card is provided. The transaction card includes a card frame having a card inlay and a card housing. The transaction card also includes a magnetic stripe disposed inside the card frame between the card inlay and the card housing.
US10296815B2
A convolutional neural network system for detecting at least one object in at least one image. The system includes a plurality of object detectors, corresponding to a predetermined image window size in the at least one image. Each object detector is associated with a respective down-sampling ratio with respect to the at least one image. Each object detector includes a respective convolutional neural network and an object classifier coupled with the convolutional neural network. The respective convolutional neural network includes a plurality of convolution layers. The object classifier classifies objects in the image according to the results from the convolutional neural network. Object detectors associated with the same respective down-sampling ratio define at least one group of object detectors. Object detectors in a group of object detectors being associated with common convolution layers.
US10296813B2
A training method and a training apparatus for a neutral network for image recognition are provided. The method includes: representing a sample image as a point set in a high-dimensional space, a size of the high-dimensional space being a size of space domain of the sample image multiplied by a size of intensity domain of the sample image; generating a first random perturbation matrix having a same size as the high-dimensional space; smoothing the first random perturbation matrix; perturbing the point set in the high-dimensional space using the smoothed first random perturbation matrix to obtain a perturbed point set; and training the neutral network using the perturbed point set as a new sample. With the training method and the training apparatus, classification performance of a conventional convolutional neural network is improved, thereby generating more training samples, reducing influence of overfitting, and enhancing generalization performance of the convolutional neural network.
US10296808B2
The present invention relates to X-ray imaging technology as well as image post-processing. Particularly, the present invention relates to a method for computer aided detection of structures in X-ray images as well as an X-ray system. A computer aided detection algorithm visibly determines tissue structures in X-ray image information and subsequently matches the shape of a determined tissue structure with a library of known tissue structures for characterizing the type of determined tissue structure. The determination of a tissue structure and thus the characterization of the type of the tissue structure may be enhanced when employing also spectral information, in particular energy information of the acquired X-ray image. Accordingly, a method (70,80,90) for computer aided detection of structures and X-ray images is provided, comprising the steps of obtaining (72) spectral X-ray image information of an object, wherein the spectral X-ray image information constitutes at least one X-ray image, detecting (74) a tissue structure of interest in the X-ray image by employing a computer aided detection algorithm, wherein detecting a tissue structure of interest in the X-ray image comprises the computer aided detection algorithm being adapted to evaluate the X-ray image for tissue structure shape and compare the tissue structure shape with a plurality of pre-determined tissue structure shapes and wherein the computer aided detection algorithm is adapted to evaluate spectral information of the X-ray image for detecting the tissue structure of interest.
US10296804B2
An image recognizing apparatus includes a processor that controls first and second learning processes, the first learning process in second layers including holding, based on a large/small relation between neuron data size and parameter size of the second layer, in a memory area, an error gradient of parameters to be sent to the corresponding layer of the second layers; and the second learning process between first layers including holding, in a memory area of each first layers, an error gradient of parameters to be sent to the corresponding layer of the first layers, which is computed based on the error gradient or an error gradient of a previous layer of the first layers, based on a large/small relation between neuron data size and parameter size of the first layer.
US10296796B2
A video device for predicting driving situations while a person drives a car is presented. The video device includes multi-modal sensors and knowledge data for extracting feature maps, a deep neural network trained with training data to recognize real-time traffic scenes (TSs) from a viewpoint of the car, and a user interface (UI) for displaying the real-time TSs. The real-time TSs are compared to predetermined TSs to predict the driving situations. The video device can be a video camera. The video camera can be mounted to a windshield of the car. Alternatively, the video camera can be incorporated into the dashboard or console area of the car. The video camera can calculate speed, velocity, type, and/or position information related to other cars within the real-time TS. The video camera can also include warning indicators, such as light emitting diodes (LEDs) that emit different colors for the different driving situations.
US10296790B2
Systems and methods for coded visual markers in a surveillance system. An exemplary system includes a camera to capture images of a secure area, memory to store identifiers for persons that are authorized to be in the secure area, and a processor communicatively coupled with the camera and the memory. The processor analyzes the images to detect a person in the secure area and detects a pattern of a light source at the person. The processor then decodes the pattern of the light source and authorizes the person in the secure area based on a match between the decoded pattern of the light source and an identifier stored in the memory of one of the persons authorized to be in the secure area.
US10296784B2
Images of residents of a controlled-environment facility may be captured at the time of intake into the facility. A feature detection process may be performed on each image to verify that corporeal facial features are present in each resident image and a copy of such an image of each resident may be saved. A request to initiate an electronic visitation session may be received and an image of a user is captured. A feature detection process is performed on the captured image to verify that images of features of a corporeal human face are present in the captured image, determining whether an image of a corporeal human face is present in the captured image. The electronic visitation session may then be connected in response to a determination that an image of a corporeal human face is present. Further, a facial recognition process may also be performed on the captured image.
US10296780B2
A three-dimensional image of the eardrum is automatically registered. In one aspect, a three-dimensional image (e.g., depth map) of an eardrum is produced from four-dimensional light field data captured by a light field otoscope. The three-dimensional image is registered according to a predefined standard form. The eardrum is then classified based on the registered three-dimensional image. Registration may include compensation for out-of-plane rotation (tilt), for in-plane rotation, for center location, for translation, and/or for scaling.
US10296777B2
A display panel is provided. The display panel comprises an array substrate including a substrate and a plurality of pixel units disposed on the substrate, wherein each pixel unit includes a light emitting structure and a pixel driver circuit, the light emitting structure includes a reflective electrode, the driver circuit is disposed on a side of the light emitting structure adjacent to the substrate, the pixel driver circuit includes at least two thin-film-transistors and at least one capacitor, and orthogonal projections of at least two thin-film-transistors and at least one capacitor on a plane where the reflective electrode is located fall within the reflective electrode; a fingerprint recognition module including at least one fingerprint recognition unit, wherein an orthogonal projection of the fingerprint recognition unit on the array substrate at least partially overlaps with a transparent region on the array substrate; and a fingerprint recognition light source.
US10296774B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a fingerprint recognition apparatus. The finger recognition apparatus includes a conductive housing. Additionally, the finger recognition apparatus includes a conductor frame, configured to transmit a radio frequency signal. The fingerprint recognition apparatus also includes an insulation layer, disposed between the conductor frame and the conductive housing.
US10296770B2
There is described an indicia reading terminal that can be operative to capture a succession of frames of image data and that can be operative so that a certain frame of the succession of frames is subject to quality evaluation processing where a result of the quality evaluation processing is responsive to one or more of an incidence and sharpness of edge representations of the frame of image data.
US10296759B1
A method is provided for controlling whether transactions applied against a database go forward or are aborted on a transaction processing system. A tracking engine identifies an uncompleted transaction to be joined, joins the uncompleted transaction, and collects selected attributes of the joined uncompleted transaction. The collected attributes of the joined uncompleted transaction are compared against rules in a rules engine to determine whether the joined uncompleted transaction goes forward or is aborted. Alternatively, the joined uncompleted transaction is automatically modified so that the collected attributes are in compliance with the rules in the rules engine, thereby allowing the joined uncompleted transaction to go forward and be applied against the database of the transaction processing system.
US10296755B2
A computing device and a method for a computing device to control access to data stored on a data store of the device. An access component of the device having control over access to the data. The access component being operative to receive a request for data from a requesting component, identify an assigned access domain of the requesting component and an assigned data domain of the requested data and determine whether the requesting component is authorized to access the data by comparing the assigned access domain and the data domain with permissions specified in a security policy. If the assigned access domain is authorized to access the data domain, the access component may provide access to the requested data.
US10296745B2
A method and system of determining a vulnerability of software. Libraries are downloaded and stored in a database. For each library, a set of features are extracted and stored in a library index table of the database. For each library, it is determined whether it poses a security concern and flagged accordingly in the library index table. Applications are downloaded and stored in the database. For each application a set of features are extracted and stored in an application index table of the database. For each application, the set of features of the application of the application are compared to the set of features of each of the libraries in the library index table to identify which libraries in the library index table are associated with the application. For each application, a name of the application and names of the associated libraries are stored in a vulnerability reference table in the database.
US10296742B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure include methods, devices, and computer program products for detecting malware in a file. Embodiments include identifying a plurality of features of the file, categorizing each of the plurality of features to define a plurality of categories of features, building a first decision tree based on a first category from the plurality of categories, the first category comprising a first set of features of the file, and building a second decision tree based on a second category from the plurality of categories, the second decision tree comprising a second set of features of the file, the second set different from the first set. Some embodiments include comparing results from each decision tree to determine the presence or absence of malware.
US10296737B2
A method (and structure) for enforcing a security policy includes retrieving from a memory a program to be verified against a security policy and a security specification defining the security policy. A static program analysis is performed on the program, using a processor on a computer, to determine whether the program is compatible with the security specification. The program is rejected if the program is determined by the static program analysis as being incompatible with the security specification. If the program is determined during the static program analysis as compatible with the security specification under static analysis criteria, then building a call-graph representation of the program for use to evaluate any dynamically-loaded code during an execution of the program. Any paths, if any, of the call-graph representation that reach at least one policy-relevant operation is marked.
US10296736B2
A user manages security of one or more user devices by manipulating one or more sensors located in the user's mouth in a predetermined pattern corresponding to a password. The matching of the predetermined pattern to the password unlocks at least a portion of at least one user device.
US10296720B2
The present disclosure relates to computational systems and methods related to nutraceuticals.
US10296708B2
The application relates to a computer-implemented method for creating a model of a bioreaction—fermentation process or whole-cell catalysis process—with an organism on the basis of measured data.
US10296703B1
The present disclosure relates to a system and method for visualization of fixing of design rule violations in an electronic circuit design. Embodiments may include displaying at a graphical user interface at least a portion of an electronic design having at least one shape associated therewith and identifying one or more electronic design rules associated with the at least one shape. In response to identifying, embodiments may include determining a proposed shape based upon, at least in part, the one or more electronic design rules associated with the at least one shape, wherein the proposed shape is at least one of a trim shape, a bridge shape, and a patch shape and displaying the proposed shape at the graphical user interface.
US10296697B2
The present invention aims to increase the accuracy of an interference check and is characterized by including: a movable range calculation unit that, in a wiring model which is a three-dimensional shape model of wiring in three-dimensional model data, sets two fixed points in the wiring model as focal points and generates a set of predetermined points such that the sum of a distance from one of the focal points to a predetermined point and a distance from the other of the focal points to the predetermined point becomes the length of the wiring model; a movable range list generator that sets the inside of the set of predetermined points as a movable range of the wiring; and a display step unit that causes the set movable range to be displayed on a display unit.
US10296692B2
A method of metrology target design is described. The method includes providing a range or a plurality of values for design parameter of a metrology target and by a processor, selecting, by solving for and/or sampling within the range or the plurality of values for the design parameters, a plurality of metrology target designs having one or more design parameters meeting a constraint for a design parameter of the metrology target.
US10296691B2
Disclosed is a system, computer program product, and method for performing logic, physical synthesis, and post-route optimization. The method begins with identifying a plurality of groups of paths in a circuit by a unique criteria. The unique criteria is any one of a netlist regular expression, a cell topology regular expression, a physical structure, or a combination thereof. An optimization process is performed on the design and is repeated until the cumulative histogram corresponds to the reference histogram within a threshold. The histogram optimization on the group of paths to make the cumulative histogram correspond to the reference cumulative histogram can be adjusted to account for timing, power, yield, or a combination thereof. After a first group of paths has been optimized, the process can be repeated for other groups of paths. The histogram optimization performed on each group of paths is merged into overall histogram optimization design.
US10296689B2
An embodiment of the present invention includes a partitioner, a synthesizer, and an optimizer. The partitioner partitions a design into a hierarchy of partitions having a top-level partition and lower partitions. The lower partitions include a bottom-level partition. The top-level partition has top-level constraints. The synthesizer synthesizes the lower partitions hierarchically from the bottom-level partition to create lower partition netlists based on the top-level constraints. The optimizer optimizes a top-level netlist corresponding to the top-level partition from the lower partition netlists to satisfy the top-level constraints.
US10296682B2
A system and method for extracting relevant computational data are disclosed. In one embodiment, one or more physical quantities and/or one or more functions of physical quantities of interest, associated with a larger volume, to be measured are identified. Further, any non-available identified functions of physical quantities are computed for each smaller volume of the larger volume using the available physical quantities in the computational data. Furthermore, regions in computational domain are identified along with ranges of identified physical quantities and functions of physical quantities of interest for carrying out the extraction from the computational data. Moreover, geometrical and connectivity information of smaller volumes associated with the identified regions/ranges that are obtained by filtering the computational data associated with the larger volume are obtained. Also, one or more clusters of smaller volumes are obtained using the obtained geometrical and connectivity information of smaller volumes associated with the identified regions/ranges.
US10296681B2
Methods and systems for automatically generating robust metrology targets which can accommodate a variety of lithography processes and process perturbations. Individual steps of an overall lithography process are modeled into a single process sequence to simulate the physical substrate processing. That process sequence drives the creation of a three-dimensional device geometry as a whole, rather than “building” the device geometry element-by-element.
US10296674B2
A method for providing a model for a part of a vehicle includes selecting at least one operation state, selecting at least one possible fault type for the vehicle part, simulating vehicle part performance for the at least one operation state during the occurrence of the at least one possible fault type, for each simulation creating a representation of the vehicle part performance in which each representation is associated with at least one operating parameter value, and storing the at least one representation.
US10296671B2
A method and apparatus for performing a simulation by using a plurality of N processors in parallel include dividing the simulation scenario into N parts to distribute a simulation scenario to each of the processors; performing a high-detail simulation by using a first processor to which a part that includes a beginning part of the divided simulation scenario is distributed, from among the N processors; performing a fast simulation by using each of N−1 processors, other than the first processor; and performing a high-detail simulation based on a snapshot that is generated after the fast simulation is finished, by using each of the N−1 processors.
US10296663B2
Example systems and methods for virtual visualization of a three-dimensional model of an object in a two-dimensional environment. The method may include moving and aligning the three-dimensional model of the object along a plane in the two-dimensional environment.
US10296646B2
Techniques presented herein describe filtering content rendered on a web browser. An analytics engine receives an aggregated feed to send to a requesting user. The aggregated feed includes one or more posts. For each of the posts, the analytics engine evaluates content of the post to determine whether a subject specified in a profile associated with the requesting user is present in the content. Upon determining that the subject is present in the content, the analytics removes the content from the post.
US10296641B2
Techniques include transmitting a search query to a search system and receiving search results from the search system. The search results include an application access mechanism (AAM) that specifies a native application state and an application download address (ADA) that indicates a location for downloading the application. The search results also include preview data associated with the state and/or a web access mechanism (WAM) that specifies a web-based application state. The techniques further include generating a selectable link including the AAM, ADA, and one or both of the preview data and WAM, displaying the link, and receiving a user selection of the link. The techniques also include, in response to receiving the user selection, performing one or more of downloading, installing, and launching the native application, and setting the application into the state, displaying the preview data, and launching the web-based application, and setting the application into the web state.
US10296638B1
Systems and methods provide for capturing a plurality of segments of an audio stream and, for each segment of the plurality of segments of the audio stream: performing feature extraction on an audio signal of the segment using a feature extraction machine learning model that analyzes the audio signal to generate a feature vector for the segment and generating a prediction value for the segment for whether there is music in the segment using the extracted feature vector and a music detector machine learning model. The systems and methods further provide for generating a probability value that there is music in the audio stream based on the prediction value for each of the plurality of segments and causing the audio stream to be identified based on determining that the probability value that there is music in the audio stream meets a predetermined threshold.
US10296635B2
Techniques and systems for auditing and augmenting user-generated tags for digital content are described. A corpus is generated for each tag associated with digital content to represent different aspects of the tag's definition. A hierarchy of semantic relationships between the tags is created based a corpus co-occurrence between the tags to relate at least two tags having different levels of specificity. Some of the tags are verified with the digital content based on feature detection, and a correspondence to the digital content is determined for each verified tag. The correspondence of the verified tags is then propagated up the hierarchy to others of the tags that are semantically related to the verified tags but which were not verified by the feature detection. The verified tags and the verified other tags are then assigned to the digital content to control how the digital content is retrieved when subject to a search.
US10296626B2
A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product provide the ability to define an attribute of a design part in a manufacturing or construction project. Apart set of two or more design parts is obtained. Each of the two or more design parts includes metadata. An external corpus is mined to determine a text set of terms relevant to the metadata. The metadata is mined for a pattern based on the text set to discover a metadata property. An attribute is defined based on the metadata property. A graphical user interface is used to search for design parts utilizing a filter based on the metadata property.
US10296623B2
A method for curating documents, executed by a computer, includes detecting one or more themes in a document, identifying one or more user interests for a user, presenting a ranked list of the one or more themes to the user, and dynamically updating the ranked list based on user feedback. The ranked list may be ranked according to the one or more user interests. A computer program product and computer system corresponding to the above method are also disclosed herein.
US10296614B2
A present invention embodiment relates to inserting data to a data table, where the data table has multiple data records and involves at least one organizing attribute. The embodiment defines a set of data blocks having records of the data table and assigns to each data block of the set of data blocks a predefined maximum number of records of the data table or a predefined maximum amount of storage. Data records for each data block of the set of data blocks may be stored on a storage system. Further data records may be sorted based on values of the organizing attribute in the buffered data records. The sorted data records may be written on the storage system in their order. Attribute value information may be determined for the further data blocks for supporting query processing against the data table.
US10296610B2
A method for associating a post with a goal may include receiving, by a processor, a special operator term entered by a user as part of a post. The special operator term may automatically cause the post to be associated with a selected goal. The method may also include providing, by the processor, a list of goals for selection by the user in response to receiving the special operator term and adding, by the processor, the selected goal from the list of goals to the post in response to the user selecting the select goal. The method may additionally include receiving, by the processor, content of the post entered by the user. The method may further include automatically associating, by the processor, the post with the selected goal from the list of goals.
US10296598B2
Data matches are calculated between input data and repository data via a digest based matching algorithm where the reference digests corresponding to a repository interval of data identified as similar to an input interval of data are loaded into a sequential array and into a search structure. Each of the matching digests found using the search structure are extended using the sequential array of reference digests. Repository data intervals are determined as similar to an input data interval. Reference digests corresponding to the similar repository data interval are loaded into a sequential representation and into a search structure. Matches of input digests and the reference digests are found using the search structure. Each one of the found matches of the input digests and repository digests are extended using the sequential representation. Data matches are determined between the input data and the repository data using extended matches of digests.
US10296597B2
For read ahead of digests in similarity based data deduplication in a data deduplication system using a processor device in a computing environment, input data is partitioned into data chunks and digest values are calculated for each of the data chunks. The positions and sizes of similar data intervals in a repository of data are found for each of the data chunks. The positions and the sizes of read ahead intervals are calculated based on the similar data intervals. The read ahead digests of the read ahead intervals are located and loaded into memory in a background read ahead process.
US10296591B2
Methods and systems for providing content are disclosed. An example method can comprise identifying a first plurality of data fragments of a media file. An example method can also comprise identifying a second plurality of data fragments of the media file. An example method can comprise generating a manifest file. The manifest file can comprise information for playback of the second plurality of data fragments on a device without access to the first plurality of data fragments.
US10296589B2
A method includes identifying a meeting to be attended by a participant in the future. A context of the meeting is determined based upon meeting information included in an electronic calendar of the participant. Multiple document repositories associated with the participant are queried to identify potentially relevant documents, based upon the context. The potentially relevant documents may be compiled in a content group and the user may be provided with access to the content group.
US10296584B2
A method of comparing the semantic similarity of two different text phrases in which the grammatical structure of the two different text phrases is analyzed and a keyword set for each of the different text phrases is derived The semantic similarity of the phrases can be determined in accordance with the grammatical structure of the two different text phrases and the contents of the two keyword sets.
US10296573B2
Methods and arrangements for managing development of information extraction rules. One or more documents are opened for extraction. An interface is provided to create a label and thereupon label a portion of the document. The created label is stored, and an extractor is developed based on the labeling. A test interface is provided for the extractor, and results of a test conducted through the test interface are displayed. The extractor is exported. In accordance with at least one embodiment, developers are presented with eased automated guidance to write extractors, which thereby reduces an overall manual effort involved in extractor development. Generally, a focused, tutorial-type environment serves as a guide based on previously developed best practices.
US10296569B2
Systems and methods are used to enable creating, searching, and managing user-managed online pages (e.g., MAPpages) linked to locations on an interactive digital map. In one aspect, the method includes, at a server system: receiving, from a client, a request to create a new MAPpage of a first type selected from a plurality of preexisting types; creating the new MAPpage of the first type associated with a first physical location and the client, uploading the new MAPpage to a platform containing MAPpages uploaded directly from content contributors; indexing the new MAPpage to the first physical location on an interactive digital map; and for each MAPpage associated with the client, enabling the client to associate the respective MAPpage with one or more physical locations, the one or more physical locations including the first physical location.
US10296568B1
Systems and methods are provided for enhancing text-based electronic communications. In one embodiment, a sending agent automatically, or upon request by a user, disambiguates identifiers and terms included in a communication internally or in collaboration with a remote device or server based on the identity and history of the sending or intended receiving device or user, the content or context of the communication and/or the sending or intended receiving device or user and automatically or at the request of the sender, appends, enhances or provides certain additional information related to the identifier or terms to the message in real time. This additional information is then included or referenced, but not necessarily initially displayed or communicated, in the communication. The integrated system also may include a receiving agent on the receiving device that can disambiguate the identifier or terms and provide additional information and services related to the identifier or terms in the communication.
US10296562B2
Techniques are described herein for generating a user interface configured for a mobile device, on-the-fly at run time, in response to receiving a request for a Web page from the mobile device. The user interface for the mobile device may show the Web page with an appearance and content that are similar to the same Web page that is viewed on other devices, such as a non-mobile device. Such similar appearance and content may be possible without an increase in cost because a layout of the Web page that is configured for a non-mobile device is used to generate the user interface. Thus, once the layout for a non-mobile device is launched, its corresponding mobile layout may be automatically ready for launch without incurring additional engineering effort. Accordingly, users can enjoy the same Web experience across a variety of devices.
US10296557B2
Embodiments of the invention may be used to improve enforcement and compliance with publishing rules in an automated and provable manner. Prior to publication, documents may be processed using publishing rules (workflows) based on conceptual analysis of document content. Additionally, embodiments of the invention include a content creation system configured to provide prompt feedback on content coverage. Such a system enables the creator of information to better understand what approval requirements apply to content they create and intend to publish, as the content is being created.
US10296547B2
In particular embodiments, a method by a social-networking system comprises receiving, from a client device, a search query from a first user of an online social network, determining, by the social-networking system, one or more network resources that match the search query, accessing a data store of social-graph information to determine one or more second users of the online social network having an association with the first user that have interacted with any of the matching network resources within a particular period of time, ranking the network resources based on a degree of relevance associated with each of the network resources with respect to the search query, and sending, to the client device in response to the search query, one or more search results corresponding to one or more of the matching network resources.
US10296542B2
A database system comprising a first database including a database manager and a schema with set of rules enabling the database manager to store and access data items in the first database, and a second database storing a plurality of data items. The schema further including rules to enable the database manager to access at least a subset of the data items in the second database. The first database further includes a first link pointing from the primary item to a replica of the secondary item stored in the first database, and a second link pointing from the replica to the secondary item in the second database.
US10296526B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for retrieving local information on a user device include detecting itinerary information stored by a first application on a user device, and identifying a travel destination based on the detected itinerary information. The travel destination is communicated to a second application executable on a user device, and the travel destination is stored in association with the second application. The second application is adapted to retrieve local information based on an identified geographic location, and local information for the travel destination is provided through the second application in response to a user interaction with the second application and based on a triggering threshold associated with the itinerary information.
US10296519B2
An aspect of synchronization of time between simulation models includes receiving a specification request for generating a set of target time-series data using a set of source time-series data, obtaining specification information relating to the set of source time-series data, obtaining specification information relating to the set of target time-series data and obtaining the source time-series data; comparing the source specification information and the target specification information to determine if the set of source time-series data are time-aligned with the set of target time-series data, and converting the set of source time-series data to the set of target time-series data upon determination that time alignment is needed.
US10296515B2
A system and method of engineering configuration data (ECD) collection for an industrial facility having a first control and instrumentation (C&I) system with first ECD using a first file format and a second C&I system with second ECD data using a second file format, and a data collection server. A first data agent has collection information regarding the first C&I system and a second data agent has collection information regarding the second C&I system. The first data agent collects the first ECD and the second data agent collects the second ECD. The first ECD and the second ECD are translated into one common generic data format. The first ECD and the second ECD are stored after being translated.
US10296496B2
A data storage unit of a data editing apparatus stores both a base indicating a data attribute and a data value in association with each other as data to be edited. A code acquisition unit acquires a user code, which is a code described in a first program language for describing data editing details by intensive notation and which describes editing details for the data to be edited that are based on the base. A code generation unit generates, in accordance with a predetermined correspondence relationship between a second program language for describing data editing details by extensive notation and the first program language, an execution code described in the second program language based on the user code. An editing processing unit edits the data to be edited in accordance with the execution code.
US10296485B2
A method for RDMA optimized high availability for in-memory storing of data includes receiving RDMA key-value store write requests in a network adapter of a primary computing server directed to writing data to an in-memory key-value store of the primary computing server and performing RDMA write operations of the data by the network adapter of the primary computing server responsive to the RDMA key-value store write requests. The method also includes replicating the RDMA key-value store write requests to a network adapter of a secondary computing server, by the network adapter of the primary computing server. Finally, the method includes providing address translation data for the in-memory key-value store of the primary computing server from the network adapter of the primary computing server to the network adapter of the secondary computing server.
US10296484B2
The embodiments relate to dynamically re-allocating lanes of a computer bus. A computer system having a processor in communication with a module is booted. Allocation of lanes among adapters in communication with connectors of the computer bus is controlled at boot-time and, in response to detection of an additional adapter received after boot-time, an additional allocation of lanes to the additional adapter is dynamically controlled. The additional allocation includes allocating unallocated lanes to the additional adapter, and re-allocating at least one lane from the initial allocation in response to the unallocated lanes being insufficient.
US10296482B2
An apparatus includes a first device connector configured to be coupled to a first device. The apparatus also includes a second device connector configured to be coupled to a second device. The apparatus further includes at least two connection arms forming a hinged connection between the first device connector and the second device connector. In addition, the apparatus includes a flexible connector coupled to the first device connector and the second device connector, at least a portion of the flexible connector extending through the at least two connection arms, the flexible connector comprising a flexible printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) or a flexible flat cable (FFC).
US10296479B1
The present disclosure provides an innovative circuit structure for control insertion into a multiple-word wide data stream. The control-insertion circuit structure is advantageously scalable as the data width increases. An exemplary implementation of the control-insertion circuit structure includes a multiple-layer shifting circuit. The multiple-layer shifting circuit has some similarities with a barrel shifter. However, unlike a barrel shifter, the multiple-layer shifting circuit moves data words in both directions and moves portions of the data to create spaces or holes in the data (rather than moving the entire width as a barrel shifter does). The output of the multiple-layer shifting circuit is a “swiss-cheese-like” structure of data, where the spaces or holes in the data are available for control insertion. Other features, aspects and embodiments are also disclosed.
US10296475B2
A data processing system includes a plurality of data processing devices that perform in parallel data processing on the basis of initial setup data. The data processing devices each has a unique ID and includes a plurality of registers that store the initial setup data and a transfer circuit. The transfer circuit receives packets including a payload that is the initial setup data, shared information, a destination ID and a destination address and, when the shared information indicates that the payload is the initial setup data to be set commonly into the plurality of the data processing devices including its own data processing device, transfers the payload to the register that the destination address indicates irrespective of mismatching between the destination ID and its own ID.
US10296467B2
A host central processing unit subsystem that writes information to external memory may provide policy to the external memory. Then every time a write comes from the host subsystem, a memory controller within the memory may check the write against the policy stored in the memory and decide whether or not to implement the write.
US10296461B2
According to one embodiment, a storage device includes a first nonvolatile memory, a second volatile memory, and a controller. In the second volatile memory, at least one of management information for managing user data written in the first nonvolatile memory and the user data is temporarily written as cache data. The controller is configured to execute processing for writing the cache data written in the second volatile memory to a third memory of the host device, if the storage device is changed from a regular mode to a low power consumption mode in which supplying of power to the second volatile memory is stopped, in response to a request from a host device.
US10296447B2
A method may include identifying a fault location in a software program. The method may further include generating an instrumentation function with respect to the fault location. In addition, the method may include replacing a statement at the fault location with the instrumentation function and performing a first test execution of the software program with the implemented instrumentation function. The method may also include selecting the fault location for implementation of a repair candidate based on output of the instrumentation function in response to the first test execution and implementing the repair candidate at the fault location as a patch based on the selection. Moreover, the method may include performing a second test execution of the software program with respect to the patch, evaluating the patch based on results of the second test execution, and accepting or rejecting the patch based on the evaluation.
US10296446B2
In an approach to reducing regression test duration, one or more computer processors receive a first code change. The one or more computer processors retrieve one or more historic code changes relevant to the first code change. The one or more computer processors determine whether one or more failed test cases are relevant to the one or more historic code changes, where the one or more relevant failed test cases and the one or more historic code changes are stored in a table of test history. In response to determining the one or more historic code changes are relevant to one or more failed test cases, the one or more computer processors retrieve the one or more relevant failed test cases from the table of test history.
US10296442B2
Distributed trace recording and replay is based on tracing execution of a first entity at a first computer system, while also concurrently and independently tracing execution of a second entity at a second computer system. The traces include corresponding orderable events that occurred during execution of the entities at their corresponding computer systems, and are recorded at fidelity that enables complete replay of the recorded execution of the entities. Each trace includes information that at least partially orders, among the respective orderable events, sending or receipt of at least one message passed between the entities.
US10296434B2
A method of monitoring I2C bus status using a Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) and a hardware watchdog (HW) circuit is provided. The method includes detecting, using the HW circuit, a failure of an I2C bus and determining if the HW circuit can auto reset I2C devices on the I2C bus. The method also includes, if it is determined that the HW circuit can auto reset the I2C devices on the I2C bus, resetting, using the HW circuit, the I2C devices, and if it is determined that the HW circuit cannot auto reset the I2C devices on the I2C bus, reporting, using the HW circuit, detected failure to the BMC. The method further includes processing, using the BMC, the detected failure.
US10296431B2
Methods, non-transitory storage medium, and systems for generating an aggregated list of problem conditions associated with blade servers to facilitate efficient debugging thereof. In a blade server environment, each chassis is equipped with a chassis management module and each blade in each chassis is associated with a blade management controller. A data map representing the relationships between the blade servers and the shared resources is utilized by a chassis management module to aggregate and link problem conditions sensed by any of the blade management controllers.
